Stopped by the Rouse Farm today to drop off the “Judy” notecard series now for sale to benefit family farms at Redux.  Everybody was relaxing, watching TV, and Ed invited me into the kitchen for some coffee. The pot is always on in Michelle’s kitchen. You can pour your own from a can of Nescafe, and it’s good. Ed, Michelle and Judy talked about cows – ill-tempered ones, cows with prolapses (last Friday), cows that kick and butt (Judy has a huge bruise on her arm). Ed talked about his father, who died of cancer, and his mother, who collapsed of a heart attack on the farm. He said he’ d like some of the notecards proceeds to go to hospice as well as to farm aid, and I told him I was a hospice volunteer.

I gave Judy the notecards and she looked at them, smiled a bit and showed them to her husband TJ. She said nothing to me,but smiled a bit later. She liked them. I will miss the kitchen when I’m off on book tour. Ed and the family took a drive Sunday and came by the farm looking for me. On Sundays they often drive around to other farms to visit farmers. Wish I’d been home.