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Foggy Oak Fairy TalesSpring Lambs! 🐑🐑This month, I’m sharing stories from spring lambing at my childhood home, Mossy Dell Farm. Lambs are silly, playful, and adventurous, and it was always my favorite time of year! Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fairy-tales Feel like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire...2025-04-1615 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesThe North Wind vs. The Sun 🌬️☀️This week’s story is an adaptation of an Aesop’s fable called “The North Wind and the Sun”, where the North Wind challenges the Sun to a contest: the first to get a traveler to remove his cloak wins!A classic lesson in the power of persuasion over force, this tale from 2,000 years ago still holds up!Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep thi...2025-03-1208 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesBe Careful What You Wish For! (King Midas and the Golden Touch)🫵👑Many fairy tales offer us the lesson “be careful what you wish for”. They teach us that sometimes getting what we want isn’t at all what we expected…and warn us about the dangers of making bargains we can’t control. “The Magic Flounder” story from several months ago is a good example of this – each time the fisherman wishes for more grand things he and his wife become less and less happy. This week’s story from Greek Mythology takes “be careful what you wish for” to a whole new level with the tale of King Midas and t...2025-02-1218 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Hedley Kow 👵🏻🪙🪨🐉Hi friends! Last season we had a story about a fellow named Hans who was born on a leap year and believed he was the luckiest man alive…and interpreted every even that happened through that lens. This month’s episode features an old woman with a similar outlook on life, as well as a mischievous shapeshifter who really tries to test her sunny outlook. Like our recent story “Fairies in the Chimney”, this is an adaptation of a story collected and written by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales from 1894, and I appreciate the light...2025-01-2212 min
Foggy Oak Fairy TalesHenry the Sled Stealing Dog 🐕🛷This month’s episode is about my parents’ black lab Henry, who we discovered takes an unusual and vast delight in stealing and returning sleds. Not just any sleds, however, only those that he believes are not sleds at all...but actually giant frisbees that it is his very serious responsibility to catch and return to us...even if we’re the ones sitting on them! Let’s find out how we discovered his amusing habit, and enjoy a wintery trip to the past. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!Send us a text2024-12-2513 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Blacksmith who Outwitted Death⚒️ 💀Hi friends! This month's episode is a funny adaptation of one of the oldest known fairy tales. A blacksmith makes a bargain with death, and then works to outwit him time and time again. Iterations of this story trace back 5 – 6,000 years and have been found in 35 different languages all across the world! If there was ever a classic fairy tale...this would be it. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it w...2024-11-2720 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Trick or Treating Cat 😺🎃🍬Hi friends! This special Foggy Oak Scary Tale is about our cat, Idgie, who surprised us by coming trick or treating! It’s the final installment in this October’s Foggy Oak Scaaaary Tales! Thanks to sister-in-law extraordinaire Lee Knight for the fabulously spooky intro and outro music for these special episodes!Send us a textIf you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakf...2024-10-2314 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Clangs, Bangs, and SHRIEKS! 😱 👻Hi friends! Foggy Oak Fairy Tales is back, and spooky season is upon us! That means it’s time for us to dim the lights, light a few candles, and settle in for a FOGGY OAK SCAAAAAARY Tale – a kid friendly scary story vetted by my daughters to make sure I never make it “too scary”. This one is based on a real life farm event from this very month, where a series of late night awakenings led to quite a surprise!Thanks to sister-in-law extraordinaire Lee Knight for the fabulously spooky intro and outro music for...2024-10-1610 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesSouthern Northern Lights 🌠 It seems this spring is one for stories of celestial events because just last weekend we were treated to the exceptionally rare experience of being able to see the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, here in southwest Virginia! Join me this week to learn about the Northern Lights and the unusual experience of seeing them in the southern sky. Big thanks to space.com for their outstanding articles and research on all of the topics covered in this episode!Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please ...2024-05-2215 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThree New Hens 🐔🐔🐔Hi friends! This week’s story is about three hens with big personalities who recently rejoined us at Foggy Oak Farm...and the hijinks they have already gotten into. Flock additions are always interesting, but perhaps never quite so much as for these hens who had never seen a rooster, let alone an entire farm full of animals!Join me to find out how they are acclimating to their new life on the farm! Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on you...2024-05-0819 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesTotal Eclipse on a Farm 🌕🌓🌑Hi friends! This week’s episode is about my recent trip to Ohio to experience the totality of the 2024 solar eclipse – a fantastical celestial event that I hope everyone will have the chance to experience at least once in their lifetimes.Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fairy-tales Feel l...2024-04-2410 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesGoat Rides at Foggy Oak Farm 🐐🐎🌳Hi Friends! This week I’m continuing our goat theme with a farm story about our goat Sunshine…and her recent determination to make my daughter into a goat rider?!Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fairy-tales Feel like reading more about the farm? Check out Claire's book "Ru...2024-04-1011 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Three Billy Goats Gruff 🐐🐐🐐🧌Hi Friends! This week’s story is an adaptation of one of my favorite fairy tales – The Three Billy Goats Gruff! Three goats are desperate to cross a bridge to get to a lush green pasture, but a fearsome terrible troll lives there and gobbles up anything that tries to cross! The goats have to figure out how to outwit the troll and get to the pasture.... Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with other...2024-03-2710 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFairies in the Chimney!🧚🏽🔥Hi friends! This week’s story is an adaptation of the English Fairy Tale “My Own Self”, collected and edited in the volume “More English Fairy Tales” by Joseph Jacobs in 1922. In this story, a young boy finds out that his wish of meeting a fairy might come true…but might not be wise to repeat!Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going...2024-03-1310 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesBear the Bully and the Bundle of Sticks 🐻🪵This week’s story is based on an Aesop’s Fable called “The Bundle of Sticks”, which teaches us the age old lesson that “unity is strength”. The forest animals are tired of being bossed around by the bullying Bear, who threatens to GOBBLE THEM UP if anyone tries to disagree with him. Can they find a way to work together and get bear to correct his bad behavior? Let’s find out!Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platfor...2024-02-2815 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesShannon and the Sticky Sheep 🪄🐑Hi friends! We are happy to be back with Season 3 of Foggy Oak Fairy Tales! This week we have a story about magic, sheep, and laughter. Shannon is a wonderful shepherd with the happiest, healthiest flock in all of Ireland. But she’s worried that someone might try to steal her lamb, whose wool feels like the softest fleece and shines like moonlight. So when the goddess Brigid and her ram Cirb offer to grant Shannon a wish...she knows just what to ask for. Her wish leads to a VERY sticky situation, a cure for...2024-02-1421 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Puppies' First Snow 🐶❄️Hi friends, this episode is about our puppies experiencing their very first real snow! It happened last week, and at a year-and-a-half old it was their first chance to fall in love with an aspect of winter that everyone here at Foggy Oak Farm already adores. That is…if they can get over how scared they are of this mysterious white stuff falling from the sky! Let’s learn how Orion and Kristoff went from terrified to thrilled, with some help from their parents.Send us a textNew intro If you like our...2023-12-2015 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesWolf and Raven (or How the Wolf Got Her Pack) 🐺🪶This week’s story is based on a recent scientific theory about how wolves became pack animals. Wolf likes to exist alone….until Raven gives her reason to believe that there is safety and success in numbers. What will she do??Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-fairy-tales Feel l...2023-12-0612 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Magic Flounder (aka The Fisherman and His Wife) 🎣🐟🌊This week’s story an adaptation of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale called “The Fisherman and His Wife”, originally published in 1812. A fisherman catches a magic fish who begs him for its life. The fisherman spares the fish, but later returns to make a series of increasingly self-centered and greedy demands as his dissatisfaction grows, no matter how many wishes the fish grants. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important...2023-11-2218 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesZoomy Fall Ducklings at Foggy Oak Farm 🐣🐤This week we have another story about Ducklings! Towards the beginning of October, I found a surprise in the chicken coop. If you’ve been following the podcast for a while, you’ll remember that we have had a LOT of surprises in the chicken coop this year. This time, it was ducklings. We’re talking about our eight surprise fall ducklings and their habits – including their penchant for catching the zoomies as a group. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast p...2023-11-0817 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Mo the Mozasaur 🐊🐋Welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week involves a scary discovery that isn’t precisely what it seems. Our protagonists encounter a prehistoric mystery when they are almost crashed into by a gigantic reptile who turns out to be a MOZASAUR. Do you think he’ll be a friend...or a foe? Send us a textIf you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfa...2023-10-2513 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Point Prim Lighthouse Ghost 👻Hi friends, welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week we have a story about my family’s visit to the Point Prim Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island...and the ghost we met while touring the lighthouse. Join us for a cozy exploration of a very special lighthouse, and its very special ghost: Michael. Send us a textIf you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook...2023-10-1818 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: Tramp-o-MEAN 🤸🤸Welcome back to Foggy Oak Scaaaaaary Tales! This week’s story is about two siblings, Harlan and Arley, who are desperate for a trampoline. Their parents agree to get them one, but the kids are impatient and wish that a trampoline would show up RIGHT NOW. And that is how they meet…the TRAMP-O-MEAN.Send us a textIf you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoak...2023-10-1116 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesFoggy Oak Scary Tales: The Spookiest Halloween Ever! 👻🕸️🏚️Hi friends, for the month of October we’re doing "Foggy Oak Scary Tales" to celebrate Halloween! These kid-friendly spooky stories are sure to give you a shiver of delight. Our first Foggy Oak Scary Tale comes from my mother, Kathy Krendl, about the time she and her parents conspired to make a haunted house surprise for her older sister and her friends. It was…the Spookiest Halloween Ever! Send us a textIf you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the m...2023-10-0409 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Boy Who Cried...ROOSTER! 🐓Have you heard the Aesop’s fable about the boy who cried wolf? This week’s story is a retelling of that fable about the risks of raising false alarms – in this case, not knowing how you’ll actually react to something scary until it happens. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic...2023-09-2011 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesThe Wild Ducklings Who Smelled Like Pancakes 🐣🦆Have you heard the expression “follows you around like a duckling” before? This is a story about a time when we rescued and hatched seven wild mallard duck eggs and how we learned that, like domestic ducks, wild ducklings imprint on you when they are growing up, but unlike domestic ducks, they eventually yearn for and return to nature. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this...2023-09-0618 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesHonorary Mermaids: The Twilight Zone 🧜♀️🧜♂️This week, we’re back with siblings Rowan and Rosalie as they work to complete the second of three tests to become honorary mermaids! Last time, they were in the sunlight zone of the ocean and helped to save a baby otter who was in danger. Their kindness earned them green gold speckles all over their mermaid tails and the completion of one test! This week, they are moving into the middle layer – the twilight zone – for their second test, when they encounter a ghost net – which is a fishing net that has been lost or abandon...2023-08-2324 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesNames ✨ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a beloved place, animal, or thing is in need of a name. Or, well, if it’s not universally acknowledged at least a the practice has a long and illustrious history in both fiction and reality. This week we are talking about names, specifically the names we give to places, creatures, and things we love. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it wit...2023-08-0913 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesA Bucket of Chicks 🐣 🪣This week, we have a story about one of the latest odd nests we’ve found around the farm– a hen who hid her nest in a secret goat feeding bucket – and the adorable chicks that recently joined us as a result. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show, please subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and share it with others! It's the most important way to keep this podcast going ❤️ Social Media: Facebook & Instagram Website: foggyoakfairytales.com Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/foggy-oak-f...2023-08-0215 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesA Loveliness of Ladybugs 🐞🐞🐞This week we have a story about a wonderful childhood memory. A girl stumbles upon a loveliness of ladybugs – that is, a huge group of them – in the hollow of a tree and begins a love of the beautiful insects that has lasted throughout her life. Let’s learn about what makes a wonderful childhood memory, explore the loveliness of ladybugs, and delve into how many of the objects and creatures around us have their own unique symbolism that makes them even more special. Send us a textNew intro If you like our show...2023-07-2616 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesJack and the Beanstalk (Part 2) 🌱 🧌This week we have Part 2 of "Jack and the Beanstalk"! Last time, Jack planted a magical bean that grew overnight into a colossal beanstalk! He climbed up and discovered a giant’s castle, where he rescued a long-fingered lemur known as an aye-aye. The aye-aye rewarded Jack with a bag of infinite treasure and told him that there were two more castles further up the beanstalk...also with creatures who were being forced to guard treasures. They decided to try and save them, too. So far they have made their way into the second castle. But they’ve just...2023-07-1921 minFoggy Oak Fairy TalesJack and the Beanstalk (Part 1) 🌱Do you know the story of Jack and the beanstalk? This week’s adaptation of the classic British fairy tale involves Jack and his beanstalk, as well as a long-fingered lemur known as an aye-aye. Join us as Jack sets off on the first part of his adventure in Part 1, and join us for Part 2, which adds a basilisk and a newfoundland dog to the group! How these characters all fit together with three horrible giant brothers I leave you to find out by listening to their story…Send us a textNew intro...2023-07-1228 min