Photo by Carol Gulley

It is always interesting to stop by the Gulley farm (Bejosh Farm) , you are never sure what you might find, but it is safe to say it is never what you expected to find. Ed Gulley had a sheep that needed shearing, and the shearer didn’t show up when he was supposed to. So Ed took some shearing clippers out of his tool shed and sheared the sheep himself.

“Well,” said Ed typically, “he didn’t show up and the sheep needed shearing, so I figured that I could do it, and I did.”

He then showed up at the farmhouse looking like  a Pagan Witch Doctor, wearing the shorn wool on his head. Ed works hard, but he plays hard too.

Carol took a photo of him, but she didn’t seem the least bit surprised. She told me anything is possible with Ed, and she is no longer capable of being surprised. Carol and Ed have started a new blog, the Bejosh Farm Journal. Ed has written three pieces, and today Carol made her debut with a lovely piece about being married to Ed, and her death-defying first ride on a tractor.

Carol says she has rarely seen Ed so happy as when he is writing. That makes me happy as well.

Carol calls herself a farm wife and she is as passionate and honest about farming as Ed.  Farming is not simple or sylvan or easy, there is life and death and joy and hardship and love there. And these two do not know how to be anything but honest. Together on their blog, they will make a great team.

Check out Carol’s first entry. Also Maria took a video of Ed artificially inseminating a cow at the farm Saturday. Definitely worth a look.