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  • Several new projects underway...and some finished this weekend. First the completed ones: I have always wanted one of these. So, now I have a birdbath in my garden The chicken tractor is almost finished. Almost. …

  • Chicken Tractors and Date Plams and Other Oddities

    One cup of coffee...and then I gotta jet. I can't believe how busy things are. Today's to do list includes the final construction on the chicken tractor, laundry (lots and lots o' laundry), planning menus for the week …

  • Yesterday I watched the weather...at noon. I knew we had a cold front moving through, and me...silly me....oblivious to that, when I planted all those tomatoes. But the weather man said we should stay in the 40's. No …

  • Busy Weekend

    We had two birthday parties to attend and of course Easter. I got lost en route to one birthday party and locked out of my van all in the course of one afternoon. Good times I enjoyed the staying home part of the …

  • Yesterday I had all this energy...I got so much done. For instance...I worked on this: I am going to plant sunflowers all around the chicken pen, right? The tiller just makes it obscenely easy to get overly ambiti…

  • Oh!!! Somebody asked to see garden photos! I would love to share my garden photos...and I actually went out with the camera during daylight hours First the flowers... The native fern survived last summer and the w…

  • Why I wish we had no neighbors at all and...gardening....

    I woke up this morning to the delightful news that my neighbor tried to shoot my dog. Yeah. You read that right. He tried to shoot Molly. Let me give you a picture of where we live, so the story has context. My dad …

  • Ranty Tidbits....

    My face still hurts. Especially my tongue. Yesterday my dad called ....they reformatted and cleaned up an office computer and discovered after debugging it it runs great...would I like it for the kids? Sure! Then …

  • It was a very un-fun day. First...about the pups. I brought them to the rescue group. They had four other beagles going to the beagle rescue and the pup should be there tonight. Both were all tails wagging and happy …

  • Things that break my heart.... Suffering. Suffering in any form breaks my heart. A few nights ago I saw a pair of dogs wandering at the front of our road. Small dogs. A beagle and a black pug. When I stopped, they …

  • The only thing I really wanted to write about was how we are fixing to have a long run of warmish weather...and I planted corn today...and cantaloupes... and cucumbers...and honey dews...and some weird heirloom melon, to…

  • Molly is home (sans ovaries and uterus.) I don't know that any creature ever has been more happy to see me than Molly was at the vet's office this morning. When they brought her out, she buried her head in my jacket an…

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