Category Archive: Farm

hollyhock & friends

hollyhock & friends

So, we’ve got the chickens, the ducks, the dogs, the cat, the little garden, the ridiculous internet and phone connectivity, the well, the propane tank, …

 

This Is My Life

This Is My Life

Steve Martin was in town playing bluegrass.  I wanted to go and find a way to give him a screenplay.  I didn’t.  Lucky him. But we …

 

Overrun

Overrun

My Dad let me borrow his pressure washer on Friday.  I had never used one before; it was awesome.  I was out on my back …

 

le petit assistant

le petit assistant

Actually, she is not. She is such a baby.  I’m like Smallness, you really need to improve that work ethic.  Sitting around growing teeth just don’t …

 

What I Really Hope You Retain From All This Is the Udder

What I Really Hope You Retain From All This Is the Udder

When I have recently smiled: At the end of Unstoppable, when Denzel says, “Me.”   I’ll bet the director was so, just, delighted with that shot.  At a …

 

Dreaming of Bees

Dreaming of Bees

The end of the day. The little red shed is finally ready for some goats.  (Some Lamancha kids are coming here in late May/early June!!!!!!) Plant babies …

 

Farmy Stuff

Farmy Stuff

It’s a wonderful day. My husband had a wee surgery, and he doesn’t have cancer, and he’s just here and eating ice cream, and the birds …

 

Inside & Squirt Guns

Inside & Squirt Guns

Are you too sewing Barbie area rugs?  I knew it!  There are so many of us. It was warmer this morning, but now it is not.  …

 

A Happy Day All Round

A Happy Day All Round

This is Cotton: Today he was safely delivered from captivity our garage to his natural habitat the woods behind our house.  Cannot even express how happy …

 

I Vote Darling

I Vote Darling

They’re persimmons, right? Here’s what I know about persimmons: 1. They’re darling, or not darling, depending on whose opinion you ask–mine or my children’s. 2. I have to …