Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2006 4 Comments »
Our goats are not allowed in the garden. Yes, their manure would make wonderful fertilizer for my plants, and they both poop constantly…but my garden plants aren’t going to need any fertilizer if they’ve been nibbled off at the ground by the goats! So we put up a nice fence designed to keep both goats [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2006 12 Comments »
Today is the first day of fall… but judging from the weather, I would have said it started at least a week ago! It’s cold outside and has been rainy, cloudy and gray for the past couple of days. (Yesterday we saw the sun for a little while, but then the clouds filled back in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2006 9 Comments »
It’s a beautiful fall day here… The air is crisp but not cold, and the leaves on the trees are just starting to change color. It must have been cold last night… my big garden froze, but my little kitchen garden is in a protected area close to the house and it seems ok. We’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2006 5 Comments »
One of the downsides of living where we do is our unpredictable electrical service. Several times a week, for no apparent reason at all, the electricity will go out. It usually comes right back on again… it just goes out long enough to get all the clocks blinking 12:00 and shut the computer down (losing [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2006 12 Comments »
We got another dog today. He’s a 2 year old sheltie. Isn’t he beautiful? His previous owners have a new baby, and no yard at all, and just didn’t feel like they could take care of him the way he should be taken care of so they very unselfishly gave him to us. He’s already [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 11th, 2006 12 Comments »
… don’t ever mess with a pregnant nanny! I often write about all the wildlife we see on our land. It’s not unusual to see hawks or even an eagle soaring over our heads, rabbits and voles in the garden, coyotes quickly scurrying across the back pasture, and mule deer does nursing their fawns outside [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2006 12 Comments »
I’m starting to feel a little like Alice in wonderland. I have somehow stumbled into a place where reality doesn’t make sense. A place where sometimes trying to make things better (“drink me the bottle said”) makes things worse, or at least more complicated, for a time. The strange thing about living in Wonderland is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2006 5 Comments »
Today was our first quiet day this week, and it was wonderful to just have a low-key, stay-at-home kind of day. None of us did very much all day… I was going to make bread, but got lazy and bought some when we were at the store instead. M watched TV, drew, and set up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 6th, 2006 7 Comments »
The past few days have been so busy… I’m really looking forward to things getting closer to “back to normal” around here. We’ve been working outside a lot the past few days, getting things ready for winter (and just enjoying the beautiful weather!). DH is in the process of taking down some of the original [...]
Posted in Simple Pleasures, Special Days on Sep 1st, 2006 11 Comments »
…oh, please let it be for me! Oh-oh, the Wells Fargo wagon is a comin’ down the street, I wish I wish I knew what it could be! Am I the only one who loves the old musical “The Music Man”? Remember cute little red-haired Ronnie Howard, playing Shirley Jones’ little brother and singing this [...]
