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<\/a><\/p>\nJust had to share these two milestone photos from our Christmas cards. Catherine and Babe Armantrout celebrated 68 years of marriage and Shirley her 80th birthday.<\/p>\n
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5th ANNUAL HOPPIN’ JOHN PARTY<\/h3>\n
We like to start the year fortuitously, with a bowl of black-eyed peas, rice, greens and corn bread. Lore says if this is the first thing you eat in the new year, you will be\u00a0lucky and rich all year. Might as well share the wealth, so we use our big pots and invite our friends.\u00a0For more, see our\u00a0Hoppin’ John Party<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bob, Lyle, Zafer, Malcolm, Jules and a strong group of volunteers picked up a shed\u00a0and moved it across the property. See the whole story on\u00a0Sugar Shack Move<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, back in Colorado King of Cute\u00a0Nolan thinks deep thoughts, smiles and chortles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Strong, gentle, wise, playful – Tyler Johnson is a great dad.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On one of those sunny, not-so-cold days we walked over to Tami and Lyle’s, stopping to pet Lyle Lyle’s crocodile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When the pond is still, Lyle and Tami’s\u00a0beautiful new house casts a pretty reflection.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Camille found\u00a0Chris and Alisa’s\u00a0115-year-old farm house lit by late afternoon\u00a0sun against a moody sky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Heavy rains had the spillway in an uproar, but walking with Shelley is always a calming experience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every Friday during CSA season we pick up a huge box of vegetables from Edible Earthscapes. Their carrots are especially fine this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zoila, Camille, Amie, Noah and Eden spent the day at the best museum ever. Don’t miss the photos and video at:\u00a0Museum of Life<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Snow came to Moncure in a storm that swept the East Coast off it’s feet. Find out how we weathered it on our\u00a0Snowzilla<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:<\/span><\/p>\n “The feeling of asphyxiation brought on by densely populated residential areas is countered if close and warm relationships develop, if communities are created, if the limitations of the environment are compensated for in the interior of each person who feels held within a network of solidarity and belonging. In this way, any place can turn from being a hell on earth into the setting for a dignified life.” -Pope Francis in his Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ On Care for our Common Home<\/span><\/p>\n “I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we’re going to grow together, that we’re going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we’re not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.” – Bernie Sanders<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don\u2019t go into government.\u201d – Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/p>\n The best way to locate a page or photo from past issues is with this handy Search Engine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Get the back story via our blog at Plastic Farm Animals<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n A big month of short, cold days featuring our Hoppin’ John party, some heavy lifting at The Plant, a memorable trip to a local museum and getting snowed in with our neighbors. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n SEASON’S GREETINGS <\/p>\n \n Just had to share these two milestone photos from our Christmas cards. Catherine and Babe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[330,332,328,333,244,331,326,297,327,224,226,329],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-album","tag-alpaca","tag-armentrout","tag-brooksie","tag-carrots","tag-malcolm","tag-museum","tag-nolan","tag-shelley","tag-shirley","tag-snow","tag-tami","tag-zoila","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/troutsfarmtoo.com\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nMANY HANDS MAKE BIG WORK<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSMALL WONDER<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nDADDY DEAR<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nWALKING TO THE NEIGHBOR’S<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nNEW HOUSE<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nOLD HOUSE<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nANOTHER DAM WALK<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nEDIBLE EVERYTHING<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nDINOS, AND SPIDERS AND LEMURS, OH MY!<\/h3>\n
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nRESILIENCE<\/h3>\n
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[Troutsfarm]<\/a>\u00a0* [January, 2016]<\/a> *\u00a0[Hoppin’ John Party]<\/a>\u00a0* [Sugar Shack Move]<\/a>\u00a0* [Museum of Life]<\/a> * [Snowzilla]<\/a><\/h4>\n
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