BY S U Z Y M c C R AY
TRUE JOY Tiny wisps of gray hair escaped from underneath the scarf tied in a knot behind her ears as the woman poured water from a cup onto her husband’s outstretched hands. He patted some of the cool water onto his wrinkled face before turning to her with a toothless grin and dancing eyes that lit up their yard, and which was reflected in her smile as she handed him a worn rag of a hand towel.
Finding true joy in simple things on your farm or homestead such as this little goat mama and her babies.
“I’d live on the side of a mountain with no power and no running water too if you’d look at me like that,” I kidded Mack as he sat beside me on our cushy love seat in our comfortable house. We don’t watch regular network TV except for Mack’s beloved football games. Instead, we watch old westerns, homesteading videos and all sorts of other things on YouTube. After church we relaxed with a snack and turned on the screen. I’m not sure how Winter 2024
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