Photo Op . . .
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Although I know Gingersnap was not very happy about getting her picture taken when she looks so dreadful and has not grown feathers back yet from her molt, I took some pictures anyway. Gingersnap lays lovely blue green eggs. They are much larger than the pullet-sized Laverne and Shirley eggs. Gingersnap did not want her […]
Black and White
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
One evening last week when I took Pixie outside before I went to bed, as soon as Pixie reached the lawn, she went bouncing around the corner of the house, pouncing on her front legs and barking. “What’s over there?” I said. I did not think it could be a raccoon, because as soon as […]
Excavation and Repair
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Lots of commotion here around Rural Route 2. Or there will be. It all started when we got a bad rainstorm on August 10. We ended up with about five inches here at the house. Other places in the county got over seven inches. The rain came down in buckets. It just poured. The next […]
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 […]
