Buzzzz!!
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
It’s getting so that people are afraid to go outside here around Rural Route 2. You no more than step out the door, and there they are — biting, buzzing, sucking blood when they get a chance. It has been four or five years since we’ve had any mosquitoes around, not since the drought became [...]
Laverne and Shirley
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
One evening last week, I was by the faucet at the back of the house, filling pails with fresh water for the horses. As I waited for a bucket to fill, Randy came rushing up the hill from the direction of the hen house. “Guess what? Guess what?” he said, breathless with excitement. “What?” I [...]
What Next?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
What Next? I think I might be glad to see the end of August. I hate to see the days getting shorter and shorter, but August just has not been a particularly good month. My kitty Jack was killed. Randy had an eye infection. I’ve got a bad case of poison ivy on both arms. [...]
Poison Ivy Woes
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
It’s a short story but a miserable one. The cat walked through the poison ivy. I picked up the cat. I now have a patch of poison ivy blisters on my left arm measuring six inches by six inches. It is draining so much that I am going through a gauze bandage and a nonstick [...]
A Very Long, Very Bad Day
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Friday was a very bad day here at Rural Route 2. In the morning, I went outside with Pixie, and as I was standing out there, I heard a strange sound from down by the garden. I knew it was a cat, but it wasn’t a cat scream, like cats fighting. It was just a [...]
