To See

I have been researching things to do on our July vacation to the west coast. There are mountains to see and an ocean to sit in front of. There will be car drives and, I’m anticipating, amazing vistas to take in. I want my kids to be awestruck. I want their jaws to drop and …

Chickens = Eggs = Cake

I raise chickens. I prefer hens to roosters. I am not interested in raising new generations of chickens. I am interested in eggs. Hens lay eggs, roosters do not. Hens will lay eggs in the absence of a rooster. A rooster is only used to fertilize eggs to make baby chickens. A hen will lay …

The Pool In The Woods…2

This Spring has started out drizzly and windy and cold. It’s a Spring season like this that make me happy we don’t have a swimming pool anymore. And it’s a Spring season like this that remind me of all of the grumbling and extra work that my husband put into that swimming pool. Before he …

Opinions

As I’ve aged, and I’m creeping up rather quickly to the half century mark this month, I have definitely changed how I view things in life and what bothers me or doesn’t. Here’s a short (very short) list... -Why do people call their significant other, spouse, girlfriend/boyfriend BABY? baby? It’s a grown man/woman. I don’t …

A Winter Hobbit

The farm is shifting into winter mode. January and February always prove to be the hardest months to keep things moving along safely for the feathered and furry residents in the barn. There is no heat in the barn. And no water source. During the warmer months, a water hose is hooked up at the …

Welcome 2021!

It’s New Year’s Eve An end to another 365 days of a calendar year. And the beginning to a new 365 days. Many form resolutions or, in this day and age preferring not to label everything they do, lists of self-improvement. I don’t have resolutions or self-improvement ideas, but I do LOVE a list. So …

A Year of Virus

It’s December. Can you believe it? In a few month we (as Americans, anyway) will have lived with this horrid virus for a whole twelve months. A year. A year of quarantines and empty shelves at the shops. A year of being held up like we are hostages in our own homes. And the only …

Keep Dreaming

In a few months, I will enter into a world where I have been a widow for two years. Two years of raising my children alone. Two years of going to bed alone when I used to have a built-in heater, confidant, and best friend. Life is different now. And I hope I have succeeded …

And Then There Were 2…

We bought our initial flock of ducks from the farm store 4 years ago. Four Indian Runner ducks and two Khaki Campbell ducks. With this group of six we ended up with four drakes (males) and two ducks (females). Ducks are quite different, in my opinion, from chickens. My ducks have been hand raised, starting …

Memories-Old and New

Once again, I’ve neglected this blog and wonder about what I really want to write about. There are many blogs out in the blogosphere and many have specific viewpoints. I recently started following a blog about Paris. It’s really about Frenchifying your own life, which I love to do. I went to Paris 15 years …