Tasha Tudor

There is this family that lives about 15 minutes from here named the Schwiezer's. They own Schwiezer Aircrafts and there is an air field named after them, etc... They are SUCH nice people! I am pretty sure they build and fix gliders... But don't quote me on that!

Anyways, Bonnie is who let us come over and visit her chickens, and goats, and bunny, and pigs, and cows! While she was giving us a tour of her house she mentioned she had heard I have a corgi. Of course, I get excited when anyone is interested in Corgi's! Then she started telling me about his lady from Vermont named Tasha Tudor. And wow... This lady is such an inspiration. Bonnie gave me a book on Tasha's life and she is so inspiring!!!

Ever since Tasha was a little girl she knew she always wanted to live on a secluded where she could surround herself with a garden, a variet of household pets and barnyard animals, and write and illistrate children's books. And that's exactly what she did!

Tasha lived by herself in a house her Son had built for her. She dressed in OLD clothes from the 1800's and lived simply. She lit her house by candles and lanterns and fed her dogs home made soup and food that SHE prepared herself. She didn't plant her flowers in any certain pattern, she just liked LOTS of them. She had tea parties with kids and encouraged them to dress in long dresses as well!

How does this have to do with corgi's you ask? SHE HAD CORGI'S! All of her pictures have Corgi's in them! And, in her book it says that she could have up to 12-14 corgi's at anytime! WOW! She also has a make up place in her books called "Corgiville"!

One passage from her book stuck out to me about the corgi. It says:

"There is no other dog that can compare to a corgi. They're the epitome of beauty." ..." They are such characters~ a mixture of a dog and a cat, I think. They especially don't like to be scolded in public. They talk back; they growl and show their teeth and pretend they're frightfully savage. However, they never criticize. You're always beautiful to them."

This specific passage makes me laugh, because Lucy HATES to be scolded and will ALWAYS show her teeth and growl when you do so... But I honestly believe she would NEVER bite or harm one of her humans. And she hasn't yet.

A few other passages from her book that really hit home are:

"What you want is entirely a state of mind. I think happiness is a state of mind."

"People have a rose- colored lens when they look at me. They don't realize I'm human. They don't see the real me. As Mark Twain said, we are like the moon, we all have our dark side that we never show to anybody." ~ I have felt this way MANY times!!!

And this one shows how simply and true she was...

"I'm perfectly content. I have no other desires than to live right here with my dogs and my goats and my birds. I think I have done a good job of life, but I have no message to give anyone. If I do have a philosophy, it is one best expressed by Henry David Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a sucess unexpected in common hours". That is my credo. It is absolutely true. It is my whole life summed up."

The whole book is completely inspiring to me. And Not just becasue of the corgi's! Anyone who is interested, I would HIGHLY reccommend googling her or checking out her book! She has passed away now, though.