tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64354892465807319582008-10-07T17:21:42.529-04:00Welcome to the Fold. This is the blog of Gimmer, the Hill Shepherd of Stedman. "Art need not make one uncomfortable or be shocking to be legitimate." -Beth Maxwell BoyleGimmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12128376444285388863noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435489246580731958.post-3064982800806465382008-10-07T17:12:00.000-04:002008-10-07T17:21:42.539-04:00

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I can see, The planets are aligning for me, But I cannot read them, For the future's gone, And all behind me. Chorus: Through this world, I am wandering, wandering, A soft breeze blowing, I am wandering now, Through this world, I am wandering, wandering, These are the days I live now. You said, turn around So I cannot see your tears falling, You don't make me proud, Now I see there is A new day

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Our big fall show is coming up and I am quite thrilled to see the show being advertised in the New York Times on line. The New York Sheep and Wool Festival is on the 18th and 19th of October this year! Our Booth is in the lower part of the beautiful, wooden, horticultural building, space 22 31. The show is on the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY. The Dutchess County Fairgrounds is

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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on. -Emily Dickinson

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"Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." - Thomas Wolfe

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It sure feels good enjoying the cool crisp Autumn sunshine and savoring the last days before the snow comes. Here in western NY we don't feel the push and pull of Wall street nearly as much as we feel the change in the seasons and the wind that comes from the west across the tops of the ridges between us and Lake Erie. When I tell new friends on line I live in New York they always think I live

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Yup it's true I am Psychic. Panic came to Wall Street this Monday morning. The Dow Jones industrials finished more than 360 points lower, dropping below the 10,000 mark for the first time in five years, as markets around the world spiraled downward in the face of a banking crisis that has tightened its grip on the global economy.

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What is this country coming to, Some would like to know, If they don't do something bye and bye, The rich will live and the poor will die, Doggone, I mean the panic is on. Can't get no work, can't draw no pay, Things are worse, each day, Nothing to eat, no place to sleep, All night long, folks are walking the street, Doggone, I mean the panic is on. All them landlords done raised the rent,

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JOB 12:7-10 You have only to ask the cattle, for them to instruct you, and the birds of the sky, for them to inform you. The creeping things of earth will give you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you an explanation: there is not one such creature but will know that the hand of God has arranged things like this! In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of every

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"There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!" -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Here in the exclusive Boyle compound things are heating up and cooling down. I had to start my woodstove this evening as they are calling for a killing frost tonight for areas of Western NY inland from Lake Erie. Here in beautiful down town Stedman where even the roosters are high class we took in some sun this afternoon but as soon as the orb lowered on the horizon it got mighty nippy. Don't

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It's beginning to look like Sen. John McCain chose death by Palin. Sarah Palin is not a world class leader she is not the kind of person to lead this nation through these difficult times. She does not have what it takes and McCain looks very weak indeed and to my way of thinking, he may not make it through a first term in any shape to govern this vast nation. I once admired John McCain but see

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  Would you please indulge me and go listen to Kate Rusby sing the hymn, Caanan's Land ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WNG5rMV9xY Caanan's Land  written in 1914 by William Golding 1878-1934 To Canaan’s land I’m on my way Where the soul of man never dies Where all my nights will turn to day The soul of man never dies CHORUS Dear friends there’ll be no sad farewell There’ll be no tear-dimmed

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It's raining here and we have just had a little hail.  It is really soggy and cold.  It's a good day to clean the house.

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My Mother wanted to go to the Antiques Mall in Salamanca for her Birthday and then to eat at the Casino so we took her out today for her birthday.  We had a really good time.  Jim drove and we all had a blast wandering for hours looking at antiques.  The Prime Rib was heaven at the Thunder Mountain Buffet in the Casino.

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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?  -Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.  -Thomas Jefferson

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Its a drizzly day here in Stedman.  I am not feeling like doing too much so I am doing laundry and things like that.   I had fun with Dani last night digging through quotes by Jefferson.  Here is a great one. -"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our

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Pull up a chair and visit for awhile its a rainy Sabbath in Chautauqua County!

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Painting by Ernest Albert Waterlow It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes   And roofs of villages, on woodland crests   And their aerial neighborhoods of nests   Deserted, on the curtained window-panes Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes   And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!   Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,   With the last sheaves return the laboring

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Blue Christian on a Red Background is a very interesting Blog I enjoy reading. I do not agree with all of Jon's views but he comes across as a man who walks in love. Its right here on Blogspot so you can slide right over there and read it. http://bluechristian.blogspot.com/ There is a culture war going on in this nation that is as potentially destructive as the Civil War was. In many ways

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Here is Maggie munching on corn shucks after being shorn.  She is a pet.  Maggie was raised in our house after being rejected by her mother.  She is no longer living in the house but would like to be!

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Steve our friend and shearer came over again this evening after closing his shop and sheared the last three sheep. We had a wonderful evening talking about the coming elections and the crazy events in the news concerning the Banking baleouts. Here is another shearing photo of Steve hard at work.

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