Christina Parkinson
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Chris Parkinson lives on the Key Peninsula in Washington state, US. For the past several years, she has been building a hobby farm that she has affectionately named Crow's Croft Farm.
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Silence is Golden
On the surface, nothing had changed. The world still looked the same. The birds still sang and grass still grew. It didn’t look like the barren wasteland landscape of all those post-apocalyptic films I’d seen when I was a young girl. There were no warlords, people were not hunting each other as a source for food, and the world had not fallen into financial ruin. The death rattle of society was not screamed by half insane men dressed in leather and painted in chemicals nor was it shrieked in hunger by zombies emerging from hidden places to grasp desperate living humans locked in a constant state of terror and survival.
By Christina Parkinson5 years ago in Fiction
Wee, Wee, Wee..All the Way Home
I never in a million years expected I would be the kind of person to love pigs. I never disliked pigs. I always thought they were cute, but I never figured I would ever be in a situation where pigs would be part of my regular routine and yet, like so many other things that happen here on Crow's Croft Farm, I have been given the opportunity to surprise myself.
By Christina Parkinson5 years ago in Petlife
One Cat, Two Cat, Three Cat, Four.....
When I meet new people, I often get asked if I have kids and the response of “no” gets me plenty of odd looks to begin with given my age. Somehow it seems a social imperative that if you are above 35 and don’t have kids, there is something amiss. I am usually met with even more speculation depending on the audience when I say that I have “furry kids” instead. Most people accept this with a smile and ask if I have a dog or a cat. When the full list of the animals is finally shared, some either find it charming or so odd they don’t talk to me again. I accept this..its my life and I choose to live it this way. I wouldn’t trade it.
By Christina Parkinson5 years ago in Petlife
