Fresh From the Farm Blog

Today is the first Christmas Day in 44 years that I won’t have my husband bringing me coffee, and building a fire in the fireplace in the den as I turn on the Christmas tree lights and put out special gifts for family to find as they come running in. Today I will make my own coffee, start a fire in the fireplace, and turn on the Christmas tree lights. I will sit with my coffee looking at the fire and the Christmas tree, soaking up the memories of those many Christmases past spent with my sweetheart and soulmate who...

December is whizzing by in a blur… cooking, decorating, and shopping for gifts is sometimes overwhelming. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I like to share the Christmas spirit with others. At Fredericksburg Farms we have a drawing each week for employees for something special: a tasty treat, a Christmas ornament, a Holiday mug complete with all of the makings for hot chocolate, a warm throw, popcorn and a DVD of Christmas movie. I love coming up with new ideas to surprise our wonderful team members. I also like to put some homemade treats in the mailbox...

This morning, I laughed as I was drinking my morning coffee and watching our granddaughter race to the Advent calendar hanging on the wall. She carefully removed the small felt ornament out of its pocket with today’s date and attached it to the green felt tree by means of a Velcro patch on the back. We have had this advent calendar since my own children were young, and it makes me happy to see that this next generation is just as excited to decorate the advent tree as the one before. Traditions make Christmas special throughout generations. What are your...

On Saturday, December 7, it will be the 83rd anniversary of the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. military bases on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. That act brought the United States into WWII. Recently, I was asked by a young lady (high school age) in a local museum store here in Fredericksburg why I was buying children’s T-shirts that commemorated an unjust war. I calmly told her that I wanted my grandchildren to know the history of WWII, and that my dad had served in the Navy in the Pacific and I was both proud of and grateful for...

Thanksgiving is tomorrow…family time, good food, football, and my favorite…leftovers! Our family tradition is to gather our big family here at our ranch, cook up enormous amounts of food together, play games, watch old videos of years past, and reminisce remembering those no longer here present. There will be too many cooks in the kitchen all talking at once, kids running in and out, folks sitting around the firepit and numerous dogs getting underfoot at every opportunity. What it will be is GLORIOUS and I can’t wait. We are blessed, thank you Lord!