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12 06, 2020

Lessons from the Storm

By judythemorgan|2020-06-02T09:51:31-05:00June 12th, 2020|Friday on the Miller Farm, Miller Farm Friday|0 Comments

A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara

We have an amaryllis in our front yard. This year it has bloomed twice and is particularly lovely.

Last week we had a horrible hail storm. Beekeeper Brian was at work, so I was home alone and it was loud and scary.

As I watched out the front window, the gutter came down.

It was disconcerting to say the least.

The insurance adjuster came by yesterday, and we are getting a new roof and gutter.

My only question to him was – can we take the gutter all the way down now? He assured me that was fine as he had pictures.

It will be a relief not to have that reminder hanging off the roof.

Meanwhile, when I walk through the living room I can see out the window the fallen gutter and the amaryllis.

I realized this morning how hard it is to look past the gutter to see the amaryllis. The gutter is much closer and represents a very scary time. But if I focus really hard, I can see the amaryllis which is quite beautiful and makes me smile.This is very much how life is right now. The things that are closest – the pandemic, the civil unrest – are scary and hard to see past. But if I focus really hard, I can trust there will be beauty beyond it all.

For now, I will choose to look at the amaryllis.

27 07, 2018

Missed the Memo

By judythemorgan|2018-07-24T21:59:56-05:00July 27th, 2018|Friday on the Miller Farm, Miller Farm Friday|1 Comment

A Blog by Chicken Wrangler Sara

I recently did my annual “work in the flower bed in the heat of summer” job. Some pink flowers we dug up at my father-in-law’s and replanted in our flowerbed prompted it. They add some cheer and color to the front of the house.

At one point we had another flower bed that encircled two pine trees. There were irises, a rosemary plant and a couple of althea bushes. Rachel and I worked in that flower bed 2 years ago but then the pine trees died and were cut down and the rosemary didn’t survive our “trimming” so I gave up on it.

Most of it just looks like part of the yard now except for these two amaryllis plants.They apparently did not get the memo that the flower bed was gone and they just keep on blooming.

I received word at the beginning of the month that the school where I teach is closing grades K-12 and will only keep the preschool open. This has made me very sad. Seeing these amaryllis every day reminds me that even though things around me are not the same, I can still bloom.