Thane's Neck Farm

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar (varying ...

Today is Flag Day in the USA. The kids and I worked on a 4-H project to help them learn about Flag Day.  I read them a short story about ...

My first born turns eight years old today!  He has requested homemade pizza for dinner.  So, pizza and a movie at home.  We will surprise hi...

May the fourth be with you!

Today is Earth Day.  We already do many things everyday that others only think to do today.  For example, we recycle as much as we can, I al...

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I can't believe my baby turns one today! What a fast year that was. We had cake and presents up at Neil's parent's house after d...

My favorite holiday! Family, food, games... I love it all. We spent the day with Neil's parents. Had a wonderful meal of turkey, stuffin...

We went to see the fireworks in town tonight. I was a good show for a small town and the kids had fun with their sparklers.

This past Thursday was our daughter McKayla's 5th birthday. Since she was traveling home from Vermont that day we didn't get to cel...

Happy Memorial Day! A couple from Danville, VA came and bought some ducks today. They were here in December and purchased three of our Musco...

Monday is Evan's 7th birthday but due to several factors it was better to celebrate the occasion today instead. It was a quiet gathering...

I can't be with my mom today as we live 855 miles apart, her in Maine and me in North Carolina. I treasure the time she is able to spend...

The kids stayed last night over at the grandparents house so they returned home this morning to find that the Easter Bunny had not forgotten...

Our local Volunteer Fire Department (who's fire house sits on the far side of our pasture) hosted an Easter event at Mayo Park today. Ma...

This morning during chores I discovered that both of our American Chinchilla rabbit does were pulling fur. I have to admit I have been so bu...

After carving the pumpkins yesterday I saved the seeds to be roasted. I ran out of time last night so this afternoon I roasted them up so th...

Fall has truly set in here (as much as Fall is in NC). The weather has been getting cooler and cooler the past few weeks. I have been donnin...

In celebration of Labor Day today. I packed up a picnic lunch (grilled jumbo shrimp wrapped in bacon, grilled corn on the cob, grilled pork ...