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Pupskill Bay Lake
and the Grounds

The Circle of Life
Poem By Skip Watt
From Vicki Alderman/Watt's thoughts on Hospice

Has Spring arrived…we’ve waited for …some sign of flowered leaves,
for now we see and smell it here…the sunshine’s warmth does please,
that feelings great… I love to see ….God’s beauty all around,
and yes I wait to dig again… to feel the moist wet ground.

The feelings great…of being close….to nature and to God,
I plant a seed of my desire…. in pot with sun and sod,
and then I watch the miracle…of life spring forth and growing,
the bees come gather nectar sweet…once full enough they’re going.

The morning sun begins to roast…revealing nights dew needed most,
the flowers stand as if to reach… and praise a loving heavenly host,
the trees long limbs with leaves in place…resemble children clustered safe,
and for their care all summer long….the fall gives leaves of colored song.

Once summer’s gone…the Fall is lazy…the sky is filled with winter hazy,
the tree and flower do not need…their leaves or pedals only seed,
for once again the spring will come to usher in that Summer sun,
and life goes on for ever more those seed were saved In God’s great store.

And now I grab those seed of God…I’ll dig and cover them with sod,
and through the dirt they’ll pop again….to blossom pretty flowers then,
repeats a loop that once began…so long ago …with God’s loving hand,
and now I know the rhyme and reason, our lives are like these very seasons.

The "Bunny Brothel "

Vick's Recycled 100% Wool Decorated Potholders.

Vick has really outdone herself on this one. Available now for shipment, are her 100% Wool Potholders in bright two-ply, decorated wool fabric. Each set of two potholders are identical, with two designs...one on one side and another on the reverse side. each set has a hanging loop.
100% of the net proceeds goes to the hospice program.

"Go Green for Hospice" Re-useable Shopping Bags save both trees and the environment.

Buy these re-cycled Polypropylene feed bags that Vick creates from old used feed bags from the local feed store and their customers.
She cuts, forms, sews, installs grommets, then she adds rope handles to finish them which creates a re-useable shopping bag. This eleminates the need for paper or plastic shopping bags and allows you to carry pretty decorative shopping bags benefitting the hospice program too!

This seventy-four page book of delightful, thought provoking poetry was published in late 2009 by the author and owner of his own publishing house, right here on the Cluckin' "A" Critter Farm, LLC.
His wife, Vicki Alderman-Watt, Illustrated select poems and Bonnie Neissner, his cousin, proof read and edited during second witing.
Each and every copy sold in the Nature's Friend's of Hospice gift shop is donated for sale with 100% of the profits going to the hospice program. A sample is shown below.....

Poems within the book are written in both prose and rhyme

Hand knitted and woven scarves,
hats and other fine accessories

Below is a collection of hand knitted or hand woven scarves, hats and other items being sold to benefit the hospice program and also give the donor a piece of pretty, quality clothing to be proudly worn as testament to your kindness in supporting the hospice program. (dog not included)

A Hospice friend,
is a friend for life

Only $9.95

Note : If you see a particular design you like on a bag in the picture at left, you can request that design, however the size is what it is. You can request an X- large, Large or small bag if you desire, but we may not be able to guarantee it in your choice of the designs to the left. Sorry..