Anna Pearl's Homestead

As you may have noticed, we have been inactive on this blog for awhile.  While it has been a very successful endeavor for our family, we have decided that we need another forum to advance our little homestead forward.

We have decided to suspend this blog and ask our readers to follows us to our new blog:

Anna Pearl's Homestead

https://annapearlshomestead.wordpress.com/

Wordpress is going to give us better opportunities to give our readers more services and features.

We will come back periodically to check on this block and re-invite you to find us out in cyber land.

Thank you so much for continuing to follow Anna Pearl and her adventures in homesteading in Wyoming.  God Bless You!

The Most Popular Post of 2016 was.....

Whew!  2016 is over!  I think that might be a good thing, considering all of the celebrities we have lost this year.  I kept thinking it cannot possibly get worse.  Then, another famous person would turn to an angel....bam...it was worse!  After Carrie Fisher passed away, I went to a mountain cabin and hid for the rest of the year.  I just didn't want to know....

It was a very happy year in our family, though!  We were able to get our youngest child married off to an amazing young lady that we love very much.

 Our blog reached 30,000 visitors!  We had a fun giveaway.  My dear Farmgirl friend CEEJAY won!  That made me very happy! 

 

We are creeping up on 40,000 visitors as of today!  That is almost 10,000 views in a year.  Who'd a thunk our little blog would get to see so many friends from all over the world!

The blog had a poem about a Rolly Polly, some horse riders in the drive-up at McDonalds, some love from a few chicks, the loss of a furry friend, and quite a few Fence Posts with a View.

The favored topic of 2016 seems to have changed from previous years.  My obsession with the Outlander series seems to have spread to about 500,000 other people in the world.  (Of course, I am taking credit for all the interest!  It has nothing to do with the amazing story, the beautiful costumes, the incredible cinematography or the sexy leading men or women. )

The Top Three Posts of 2016 were as follows:

#3  Fence Post with a View #25  114 Views
#2  New Obsession - Outlander on Starz  178 Views

And the Number One Post of 2016......Wait for It.....Wait for It.............with 605 views

#1  Now We Know What They Wear Under The Kilt  

With that final result, I may have to spend 2017 re-evaluating my blog and it's purpose.  (Just kidding, I'm not changing a thing.)

The Plight of the Rolly Polly

There once was a Rolly Polly
Who crawled on the dining room floor
 

Until along came a young woman
 Who ushered him out the door.

...

Now he is shivering in the wind
As he crawls along the garden bed
All he wanted was a nice warm place
to lay his wee little buggy head.

 

The thing that he doesn't know
The knowledge better not told 

He's better off than the spider last week

  She killed that poor sap, cold!

 

By Anna P. Taylor - All Rights Reserved

You Walked Away

We lost a good friend on the Homestead last week.  I have been trying to think of how to honor a cat.  Missy has been in our lives for 19 years.  She has been an outside cat all of those years. 

She has been on many adventures with our family.  A few years back, she rode to town in the engine of my husband's truck.  After spending a few days roaming around town, she ended up on the back porch of a former neighbor's house.  We were so happy to have her back with us.

To honor our dear friend, please enjoy this poem written in her honor.

You Just Walked Away

By Sherone Taylor

 

You just walked away

No notice, no words

Orange tail twitching.

 

A splotch of white

In a field somewhere

Under a fallen limb?

 

No noise to tell us

You might need help

With your dying.

 

Nearly twenty years

You meowed “NOW!

Feed Me Now!”

 

Today, you walked away

No notice, no words

To save our sorrow.

A Poem of my Heritage

 

 

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone

By Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Mull was astern, Rum on the port,

Eigg on the starboard bow;

Glory of youth glowed in his soul;

Where is that glory now?

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Give me again all that was there,

Give me the sun that shone!

Give me the eyes, give me the soul,

Give me the lad that's gone!

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone,

Say, could that lad be I?

Merry of soul he sailed on a day

Over the sea to Skye.

Billow and breeze, islands and seas,

Mountains of rain and sun,

All that was good, all that was fair,

All that was me is gone.

Ode to the Desert

Photo Credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

The Call of the Desert

 

By: Sherone Taylor

 

My folks live in the desert

Somewhere south of here and there.

They talk about the beauty.

They say they want to share

 

With all the family living

In the mountains far away.

Come to the desert, children

We're betting you will stay.

 

The mountain folk came to see

If the desert was the place

To settle in as old folks

With wrinkles on our face.

 

Though living in places green

Has always been our way

We think we might just venture

To the desert just to play.

 

Our winters are too harsh

in the God forsaken land.

We want to toast our frosty toes

In the sunshine and the sand.

 

Wise Mother and Wise Father,

Your example we must heed.

The plant that you are growing

Started as your seed!