As some of you know, we have to put the farmlet up for sale. The global financial crisis hit the area in a big way, and 11,000 local homeowners got screwed by the banks; we're one of them. There are For Sale signs sprouting all around us. It's been an insanely busy two weeks of cleaning and packing and painting and pruning and generally trying ( Read more... )

( We had a dumpster delivered to the house this morning. )

As I was walking out to the barn this morning, the heron was making his way toward the pond. He stopped dead in his tracks, and I walked slowly by him giving him a wide berth. I got a close look at him, though, and what I thought was an immature Little Blue Heron is instead a mature Green Heron. And they do, in fact, hang out in trees when they' ( Read more... )

It's Canada Day, and that means . . . fireworks. At the neighbors. On both sides. I still can't get used to the idea of it being legal, having been raised where it was a crime to set them off. Needless to say that the cats and the alpacas are not very happy about this particular part of the holiday. Poor babies ( Read more... )

Well, parts of it anyway.

( Farmer Lee, back of the house, peony )

Just a few things ( Read more... )

and a major pain in the ass. My power cord to my laptop just died, so I'm going to have borrow Dar's off and on until I can afford to replace this. My online time is going to be limited for a while, it seems ( Read more... )

Tonight while trying to feed Jester the horse, I got my right leg woefully stuck in the mud. I tried to use his feed bucket as a balance so I could drag my foot up, but Jester was having none of it. He knocked me over and away from the bucket, and then I was down and wallowing, trying to pull myself up and avoid getting stepped on. I lost my ( Read more... )

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My airport card died on my laptop, so I'm writing this from my old desktop Mac. A mouse! A scrunched up keyboard! EEP! Heh. It's also a lot slower than my laptop because it's an older OS. And trust me, I'm not complaining, because any internet connection is better than no internet connection ( Read more... )