Online dating… is so hard. It’s a picture and a brief description. He is a dog groomer and I’m a vet tech. He messaged me on the very last day of his subscription to the dating app. He gave me his phone number and he wrote “If you would like to get to know each other, call or text me. But you won’t be able to message me on the app after today.” Normally I would play it safe and not give out my phone number until we had messaged for a bit. But I took a chance. I texted him back.

Getting to know each other and falling in love is our favorite memory. He had already asked me out on a second date before we even went out on the first date. Talking on the phone before we met was easy. I hesitated to agree to the second date before meeting, but he told me that he already knew he liked me enough even as a friend to enjoy my company for the second date. He proposed to me 45 days after we met. I said, “yes” to my best friend. And we still say “I do” 10 years later.

I’m an accidental farmer’s wife. I was a city girl. My husband lived in the city of a small town when we met. We bought our first house in the country. Little did I know that my husband is a farmer at heart. He bought all kinds of farm animals. Since then, we started the “Happy Critter’s Farm.” Not many people get to enjoy being around farm animals. The love of animals brought us together and we want to share it with others. The money would be invested in the “Happy Critter’s Farm.”