My life has been or remains weird lately or yet. A couple of weeks ago, my Sara heard galloping footsteps overhead and decided that we had best hire an assassin to get rid of them. I checked into it and decided that it was some red squirrels that had crawled up the spruce tree out front by the bird feeder, and chewed through the fascia and ( Read more... )

I finally figured out my password thanks to my amazing son Chris who thought to send it to his email, so the crisis is over, call off the dogs

well, our week is done and I went out today to check the pole beans. Itook my two-gallon bucket with and expected to be done picking in about15 minutes. An hour later, or three gallons, as it were, I was ready to go back in the house. The 3-5 inches of rain this really translated into some big tender green beans. Norway granny went into paroxyms ( Read more... )

This morning the yard was full of fat, waddling and gobbling robins (Bucky cat would have loved it) saying "I got to see about something - I'll see you at the bird bath later." There were 3 Baltimore Orioles trying to feed out of the sugar water feeder at once - tipping it over onto each other. A couple of frumpy baby Cardinals at the seed feeder ( Read more... )

Well, after breaking a lengthy drought just by camping out overnite last weekend, I am at a total loss as to what to do next.And to think I raised my youngest to be a diplomat. I FORGOT to give my middle child some blackberry juice for wine. And I did not remember to bring some adhesive to my oldest. I may just self-flagellate a bit and go back and ( Read more... )

I have enjoyed the Carrissa phenomen myself, but many would say that as her grandfather, I am biased

I consider her to be more like the small whirlwinds, dust devils we used to call them. You might say that I consider her to be one of my favorite forces of nature.The name Little Yipper comes to mind,too.