I m sure there are a whole lot of city folks in California and New York that would say it is positively barbaric the way that we tie small children to farm animals and then cheer as they are dragged across the arena. I think that it has something to do with the way people cheer for each rider as they zoom across the arena on their sheep. The most traditional is the Classic Position, where the rider positions himself or herself in the median position on the sheep s back and places a leg on...

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Of course, there is also all the fine goat milk products that Side Hill Acres is famous for, like lotions, ice cream and cheeses. There will be vendors with farm fresh produce, plants, homemade goodies and much more. Lori will be there with her hanging baskets, house plants and floral displays for your loved one's cemetery plot and more. Mary Scott will have her paintings, Kay Shaw will have house plants and cacti, and even a local artist with handmade jewelry will have stands. The Candor...

But now contraptions that couldn't cut butter without a good shove are quietly - really quietly - making a comeback. Manual lawn mowers, long the 98-pound weaklings of the tool shed, are pushing their way, or, more accurately, being pushed around more yards all over the country. It looks different than the one invented in England in the 1830s to take over a job that once belonged to scythe-wielding people or hungry sheep. According to buyers and sellers, the resurgence of these quaint...

Rather, the only kid we could handle would be a baby goat, specifically one that would live on someone's farm but be available for occasional visits by us. A posse of parents of adopted children were offended by my plan to adopt a baby goat as a response to the recent trend of international adoptions by attention-seeking celebrities. Only I made it clear that my wife, Leigh, and I were already overwhelmed by caring for our two young daughters, and thus we had no desire to add an extra...