Farm Life

I always think back to my life as a child on our family farm, particularly at the start of a new year. It was the most wonderful childhood anyone could wish for, endless days of excitement, fun and freedom. My dear English grandfather and two uncles ran the farm and it was through their love of life that we too could enrich ours. Thoughts, memories and visions, as if it were yesterday, come flooding back, moments of reliving it in today, tastes, sounds and smells are all there, its still so much a part of me and yet many, many years have past.
This year, 2008 I have made my goal to gather as many photos of this wonderful time as I can and put them together in a book of "Memories of a Farm." Here are a few above to share with you.

Coffee anyone?

Today I found this cute enamel coffee pot and milk pan, and it goes so well with the mini enamel mugs I had already. Hubby and I sat down this evening and enjoyed our first pot of coffee in this set. It bought back memories of my childhood, life on the farm. We always had a pot of coffee bubbling away on the coal stove, that aroma filtering through the farmhouse, giving it a warm inviting homely feel. There were always huge mason jars of freshly baked rusks to enjoy with the coffee, of course as children we were allowed to dunk our rusks if no visitors were present. Ahh..... the memories, I just love enamelware!