HELLO APRIL 2025
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day observes of the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking and a whole lot of green.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated annually on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. St. Patrick’s Day will take place on March 17. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. On St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!
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Blessing, Margarita & Stace
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
SPRING FORWARD 1 HOUR
In 2025, daylight savings time starts on Sunday, March 9, and ends on Sunday, November 2025.
According to Wikipedia – Daylight saving time, also referred to as daylight saving, daylight savings time, daylight time, or summertime, is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
- Why did daylight savings time start in 1970? In the early 1970s, America was facing an energy crisis, so the government tried an experiment. Congress passed a law to make Daylight Savings Time permanent year-round, but just for two years. The thinking was more sunlight in the evening would reduce the nation’s energy consumption.
- Was daylight savings for farmers? Myth: Daylight Saving Time was Created to Benefit Farmers – The truth of the matter is the agriculture industry lobbied against daylight saving time in 1919. Some believe it was then that farmers became associated with daylight saving time, even though they were only involved because they were against it.
- What time do farmers wake up in the morning? Historically, farms all had cows to milk, and it’s most comfortable for the cows to get milked at evenly spaced times each day, which means on a two a day milking cycle, you find farmers milk early (say 5am and 5pm) to eat dinner at a normal-ish time and see their kids before bedtime.
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HELLO MARCH 2025
Hello World
Welcome! Come on in and stay a while. We are a husband-and-wife team with 3 adult kids and 3 grandchildren. Our simple living journey started back in 1998. God blessed us greatly. We brought our two family’s together and was able to purchase our first place together.
We worked hard at our first place making it a working farm.
With the love for horses, I started boarding horses and giving riding lesson. Stace was right by my side every step of the way. Our business grew. We sold that place and moved to a big horse facility that would hold up to 65 horses. It was a lot of hard work. We went from a hand full of horses to the sems busting open. We were at full capacity. Over the years there I showed, trained, and gave lessons.
We moved again to a larger place. Some of my clients moved with us. At our new place it was laid back. we still showed our horses. With the property we were able to go on long rides and enjoy the countryside.
Due to injuries over the years, I started slowing down. We found the place we are now and had to have it.
We picked up and moved again. In 2009 Stace and I started Tailspin Farms in Stockdale Texas.
You can ask us about rabbits, chickens, goats, pigs, cows, horses, honeybees, gardening, home cooking, Bar-B-Q, Canning and just living the simple life.
Stace and I want to share our knowledge and experience of this hard work we do called farming or homesteading. So, come along with us and our family as we go through this journey.