Posted in Nature, photos on Mar 31st, 2011 5 Comments »
Liese and Renee… good guesses but you weren’t even close. Jackie… you were closer… but not quite there. Steve nailed it… it’s a “bird print”, left over from a bird that had managed to slip down my chimney, ended up in the fireplace (getting covered with ashes of course) then flew out of the fireplace and aimed for the first [...]
Posted in photos on Mar 30th, 2011 4 Comments »
I frequently have these marks on the inside of my windows… ` I get them so often I tend to not even notice they are there. (Which is why this one is still “decorating” my living room window a week after it was created). ` Do you know what it is? ` In [...]
Posted in Homeschooling, Nature, Out and About on Mar 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
I was thinking yesterday that I should write a little about the drought we are having… maybe post a few pictures of the ground in the pasture cracked open, or of the scorched acres from the two wildfires our county had during the past week. (One just south of town, one just west of town… thankfully [...]
Posted in Medical Stuff, Psychiatric Stuff on Mar 25th, 2011 4 Comments »
For the past few years M has had spells of oculogyric crisis… It’s something that can happen as a side effect to a couple of his meds. These “crises” are scary and painful for him, and before all the trouble with his GI system he took a medication each day to try to prevent them. It [...]
Posted in FASD, Homeschooling, Psychiatric Stuff on Mar 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
Because of the kid’s disabilities, structure and predictability are the name of the game at our house… The days we are home are very structured, we do about the same thing at about the same time each day. This is not as important for R, who can usually manage a more go-with-the-flow kind of day, but [...]
Posted in Gardening, Home Remodel, Outside Work on Mar 19th, 2011 4 Comments »
Our house is a older log/timber home and the main rooms of the house all have at least one large window with a heavy timber windowsill. R was forever sitting on the family room window sill, which was ok… we use the dining room window sill for extra seating sometimes, it’s big enough to hold three [...]
Posted in Dogs on Mar 17th, 2011 No Comments »
I came in from working outside this morning and kicked off my crocs at the back door. I hadn’t even left the room before Cody had grabbed one of them and started running wildly around the house with it in his mouth, shaking it furiously and growling at it. I’ve learned that chasing him to get it back [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
here… and listen to this kid sing. You can also find him here and here His family (and him) sang at M and R’s birthday party last year… He just cut his first CD… Buy it… it’s amazing. Better yet, buy two and put one away. He is going to be famous someday and that first CD [...]
Posted in Simple Pleasures on Mar 13th, 2011 2 Comments »
I’m fighting a cold and I’m tired… M’s had a rough week psychiatrically and the week ended with a major episode last night. It was hard to get to sleep afterwards… definitely not a good weekend to change all the clocks forward for daylight savings time. I’m really hoping this next week is better. I’ll [...]
Posted in Nature, Outside Work, Psychiatric Stuff, Simple Pleasures on Mar 8th, 2011 4 Comments »
I got up this morning not in the mood to start the day. I’ve been up a lot the past couple of nights and was tired…and the house was cold… and about the last thing I felt like doing was bundling up and going out to the barn to feed. A heavy fog was settled over [...]
