Posted by Suzanne McMinn on May 9, 2008 @ 5:05 am
Daily Farmhouse Journal
Goodnight barn.
Goodnight farm.
Goodnight straw beneath our arms.
Goodnight light
that keeps us so warm.
Goodnight dog.
Goodnight frog.
Goodnight cat leaping over a log.
Goodnight hills
all covered with fog.
Goodnight creek.
Goodnight beak.
Goodnight to another week.
Goodnight fluff
grown into feathers, eek!
Goodnight pen.
Goodnight hen.
Goodnight to the other ten.
Goodnight flock
in our safe little den.
Goodnight barn.
Goodnight farm.
Goodnight chicks.
5:50
am
Typical babies: Go, go, go….zonk! Wish I could sleep like that. LOL.
Chicken house is looking great, btw. (I was out of town, just catching up now.)
-Kim
7:03
am
Awwwww! Goodnight Moon was one of my favorite books to read to the boys. The chickies are growing so fast!
:J
7:15
am
Chicks and goats. Your on your way!
Do you have a place ready to keep the goat baby when you get one? Will you have a little house for it also?
7:33
am
I love your version of Goodnight Moon. The second picture of the chicks is so cute. He looked like he was posing for the picture.
7:35
am
The goats will need an enclosure and a shelter. When 52 finishes the chicken house, he can start on the goat house! I mean, “we”…..
7:40
am
You should think about writing a children’s farm book. (Don’t laugh…I am serious). You take wonderful pictures and you could include them instead of drawings. In the back, you could include information on chickens for the parents. It would be fun!!!
grace and peace,
julie
8:17
am
Ah, Goodnight Moon. Great memories.
Those chicks are so cute!
8:28
am
Good Morning Suzanne, I have convinced my landlady,(my daughter and sharer of the duplex) that a few goats would eleminate the need to brush hog the back of our place. It is already fenced with welded wire fence panels and all we need is for her handyman hubby to build a barn for them. Next I am gonna have a moveable chicken enclosure built, it will allow us to move it around the yard so the chickens won’t completly kill the grass. I am excited about all of this and have you to thank, Thank you!!!
Terry
8:45
am
8:53
am
I think you are in chicky love! Don’t blame you…wait til you get that baby goat!
9:15
am
I am so laughting! I think I read Goodnight Moon every evening for the last 2 years! My kids LOVE that book! Fun post!
9:29
am
My favorite children’s book . . . they are so adorable I don’t know how you get anything done other than look at them.
9:31
am
OMG CHICKIES SQUEE!!1!1!
Ahem.
They’re quite cute.
9:58
am
It’s refreshing to see baby chicks. We usually see kittens(thank you chocolatchic for sharing yours) or puppies. But these baby chicks are fun too.
10:42
am
Really cute, at least you can get the chicks to sleep but the real question will be can you keep the rooster asleep past sunrise? Unless you are an early riser yourself, and the kids too. You are sure enjoying them I can tell. Have a nice weekend.
10:50
am
Your chick pics are just adorable. I love the story too!
11:30
am
Wonderful memories of reading Goodnight Moon to my daughter, my first graders and my granddaughter - and memories of my own WV farm. Loved your poetry and your chicks. Have a wonderful day.
11:46
am
I love that second picture: she’s looking at you like, “My sibs are so lazy.”
12:01
pm
As I said before when you were asking for suggestions of what you could do; write children’s books about your animals and the farm. And forget paying someone to illustrate them, just use your pics.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Linda~
2:42
pm
They are still so cute. I love your take on Good Night Moon. Very sweet.
3:08
pm
The chicks are groing sooo fast!
3:39
pm
Your chicks are so cute!
3:42
pm
Oh gosh! They look so cute. Like most babies, even cuter when they are asleep! *G*
5:18
pm
I sooooo agree that you should do a children’s book!!!!! That was sooooo adorable!!!!!
6:56
pm
Good luck with the work on the chicken house this weekend! I mean good luck to 52, 16 and 15 whilst you supervise. I just rediscovered the word “whilst” and was dying to use it. Love the poem and chick pix.
8:14
pm
LOL The Waltons! Goodnight John Boy! LOL Ohhh, they are so adorable..so sweet. I love thier little faces and seeing them all snuggled together! I can see why you are a writer - I love you you narrate things and crack up when you narrate your children, in pictures of them.
8:14
pm
ugh, that should be “I love HOW you narrate things” LOL
9:13
pm
One big, collective…..aaahhhh!
11:12
pm
I haven’t read any of the other comments so someone may have already suggested this….
HOWEVER
I most definitely see a children’s book in your future. Seriously, that entire post would be a PERFECT children’s book. And one that parent’s would enjoy too. Do consider it!
Suzanne….romance writer…..children’s author.
8:55
pm
The chicks are cuter, of course.
But the Bug IS cool!
And I need your cat, our new house has snakes and lizards in the yard!!
10:23
pm
See…just like the other day…ANOTHER future Golden Book classic!! I’m tellin’ ya…if my kiddos were still little, I’d buy these little stories you write…pictures and all!!
Blessings from Ohio…
2:31
pm
I wish I had little ones to sit on my lap and look at the pictures as I read to them…all mine (even grandbabies) are grown and the dogs just didn’t get it!!