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Tag Archives: farm
Yes It’s Cold, Windy, and Slippery…But
Daughter lives in Florida, where it’s right now in the 70s. Son lives in California where it’s just about 60. We live in northern Illinois where it bounces between a wind chill of minus 20 and just above freezing. Why … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts, Uncategorized
Tagged farm, Heatherhope Farm, ice, snow, winter
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Should We Buy a New ATV?
Reflections on Luke 12:13-21, the Gospel reading for the 8th Sunday of Pentecost. Almost every day on the farm we are faced with quite consequential decisions. Today it is about our ATV. Most days we use it several times for … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts, Reflections on Sunday Readings
Tagged age, aging, ATV, death, decisions, farm, Gospel, Kingdom, lessions, luke, money, possessions, readings
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This Place
We had a Rocky Mountain family gathering. Our son, Jeremiah, and his fiancé, Caroline; along with our daughter, Rebekah, and her husband, Mike, joined us for a week on the mountainside in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Connie and I drove our … Continue reading
Posted in Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts
Tagged Chicago, farm, land, natural history, place
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DeKalb County Farm Stroll, July 19
Heatherhope Farm will be one of a dozen farms welcoming the public as part of the very first DeKalb County Farm Stroll, sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension. The stroll is Sunday, July 19, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 5 … Continue reading
Posted in Border Collies, Farm Diary, John's Posts
Tagged agriculture, DeKalb, dekalb county, education, Extension, farm, farm stroll, stroll, University of Illinois
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Epiphany at Heatherhope, January 4
You are invited to a very special evening—our annual Epiphany celebration at Heatherhope Farm. We will gather Sunday, January 4, 2015, from 4:30 to about 7:30 p.m. At times the darker powers of this world seem to threaten to overwhelm … Continue reading
Big Crowds and Good Weather for Sheepdog Demo
Heatherhope Farm went to Kline Creek Farm on the weekend of April 20 and 21, 2013. The Lord was good. A week earlier John was sick and the weather was atrocious. But John’s coughing was gone and his voice was … Continue reading
Posted in Border Collies, Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts, Sheep
Tagged carding, demonstration, farm, herding, illinois, kline creek farm, shearing, Sheep, sheepdog, spinning, weaving, Wheaton
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Meet and Greet the Lambs, May 25
Come to Heatherhope Farm on Saturday, May 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and meet and greet our 2013 crop of 21 new lambs. Watch them follow their mothers and enjoy their lamb frolics during which they gather like … Continue reading
Posted in Border Collies, Farm Diary, Sheep
Tagged farm, greet, heatherhope, lambs, meet, picnic, Seraphine
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The Glories of Glum and Sheep Keepers New Year
Lots of people complain when clouds and rains come. They think it dreary. Not me—especially when we have endured the long, hot, dry summer of 2012. I complained when there was not a cloud in the sky for days … Continue reading
Posted in Border Collies, Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts, Sheep
Tagged animals, Border Collies, Dogs, drought, farm, heatherhope, rain, ram, Sheep, sheepdog, Sheepdogs, shepherd, shepherding
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Post-Sheep-Handling Thoughts on Olympian Spirit
The great 19th century Danish-Lutheran philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, wrote scathingly of a certain bishop who was called a “faithful witness of the truth” at his funeral. Kierkegaard thought that faithful witnesses, or, what he would also call “knights of faith,” … Continue reading
Posted in Border Collies, Farm Diary, Featured, John's Posts, Sheep
Tagged animals, athletes, athletics, Border Collies, cross, Dogs, farm, handling, heatherhope, heroes, olympian, Olympics, Sheep, sheepdog, Sheepdogs, shepherd, shepherding, suffering
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