Maggi Ansell

Oak Tree Farm (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dispossessed after losing our sailboat home, we need roots and another challenge so we can be self-employed, work on the land and provide ourselves with food. We rent a chalet on two acres and are allowed to keep a dog and a cat, but can't resist also populating with some farm animals as we search diligently for "our" farm. We decide to operate on a "need to know" basis with our kind landlord. Within a few months we find a picturesque small farm tucked under the mountains, with a huge farmhouse and mansard-roofed barns, just begging for love and development. "It won't grow hay, or crops," the owner says, but he hasn't encountered our determination. We buy the farm.
Choreographing the movement of livestock, and with the help of neighbours, we effect the move. The chicks hide, a sheep escapes, a pig has a learning experience with new electric fences and our landlord's beautiful golden retriever arrives on moving day as we've agreed to look after him for six weeks. He adores his new farm location; a farm boy is what he wants to be, not a city dweller. The idyllic summer weather means long working hours and many visitors, not all of whom are invited. Children and spouses arrive for holidays to work all hours and help us. Then at last it's time to collect our Jersey cow who, four months previously, we'd negotiated to buy. Life is perfect. However, our "quiet, dream cow" is not. She comes with a surprise and immediately goes AWOL.
New sheep, piglets, pups and poultry and SPCA rescues arrive. All are worked into the schedule and then our first winter is upon us, bringing exotic ice sculptures in drinking troughs, the hauling of hot water and also sheep concerns at the beginning of lambing. Robin has an emergency call to England and I'm left in charge of the farm and the births, and not just the sheep. It's also time for Robin's pig's first farrowing, that evolves into a nightmare for the midwife.
Dogs, hogs, bears, cows, a cougar, orphan lambs, stolen ducks and hard knocks all weave their way into the rich fabric of farm life. Even the "Tax Gestapo," makes a very unwelcome presence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780994003300
• Artikelnr.: 45520321

Autorenporträt

For many years Maggi travelled with her engineer husband, Robin, working in the UK, Canada, Libya, Cayman Islands, Philippines and Australia. During her travels she learned to fly, scuba dive, sail, and gained a science degree from the University of Toronto. After their sailboat was sunk in cyclone Justin and they were rescued by helicopter from the Coral Sea, off the coast of Australia, the author and her husband returned to Vancouver Island, Canada where they started farming, the latest of their adventures. For several years an editor and writer, she's been published on five continents.
Now retired from active work she lives with her husband by a river in Nova Scotia where he keeps his latest sailboat and she spends time landscaping; growing organic food and lavender; walking their latest pit bull puppy and writing during the long winter months.
Maggi died peacefully, at home on Jan 12, 2023, after accessing MAiD, following the aggressive
return of cancer.The past few years she has loved being an active member and
instructor at Elderfit, and part of that great family. In honour of Maggi's wishes,
she was cremated and no memorial service held. We can all celebrate the
life of Maggi through sharing stories and memories of her.
She is survived by her husband and best friend, Robin, of 55 years; two wonderful
children, daughter Lisa (Pete) Phillips in PEI; son, Bill (Laurie) Ansell in Ontario;
and four lovely grandchildren: Alexander Phillips, Mitchell Ansell, Elizabeth
Phillips and Jessica Ansell.