Lovely stories, I read them all. I am a city girl and have traveled the world too but 12 years ago, dh bought some land and here we are. This 1908 ranchhouse has been remodeled by us. When I first moved here, I had chickens, hens, guineas, cows, bulls, goats, and even Wilbur and Charlotte, two pigs, ducks, turkeys, you name it I bought it. And tehy all had names of course.
This house was the original ranch in the 500 acres around us. We arenot farmers, although hubby grew up on one, but love the country.
My cows and bulls would come to me when I went out because I was determined to hand feed them the cube snacks. LOL. As they got bigger, I would stand behind a fence and feed them.
My neighbors are "cowboys" in all sense of the word and I watch them to this day herding and everything that goes with farming. Now I have only dogs, cats and rabbits, wild turkeys, hogs, and deer. Everything else went, too much for us to keep up with. We also lease our land for coastal hay for the rancher enxt door.
So living the country life and using everyone else's cows to look at. And the smells aren't bad most of the time.
So it was fun, I can say I did it, and now I can enjoy the memories. When we get our new gate up, it will say Green Acres...(HOney I love you but give me park avenue).....ROFL