A feral cat had her kittens under our workshop. They are old enough now to be out and about and exploring the wide world of our shed. I have...
I received this daylily from a fellow Stewie last year, and it is blooming! I'm so thrilled, and so very grateful for the generosity. We don't...
When I sprained my ankle and couldn't drive for a few weeks, my husband took me to the grocery. I leaned on the cart and went up and down the...
Yesterday we pulled our first garlic--the ones with the yellow leaves and were looking "done." We only harvested about a dozen heads since the...
I had planted carrots in half of a raised bed. All we got was weeds. I figured that I'd planted bad seed or planted too deep or too late. I went...
Lonesome George, our resident mockingbird, has been flinging himself in the air and singing through his entire repertoire, trying to attract a...
Here is our potato patch in the first week of April. I used Sjoerd's dig a trench and slowly fill in method, and we have lovely potato plants (can...
We had heavy rain Sunday, but I nipped out while it was still dry and cut bouquets of roses before the downpour came. Here's the bouquet of Bon...
Barb is famous for preserving large amounts of food (would that I had her energy). She inspired me to get 10 lbs. of beef bones at a meat market...
We had a gentle rain last week, not the usual Texas torrential downpour. It was so lovely and quiet that we took a photo of the pasture, all hazy...
Last week we had an unusual occurrence--a soft rain! The pasture looked so pretty, misty, hazy, and wet, that we took a photo: [ATTACH] Our rains...
[IMG]It's AANightowl's birthday today--bring on the festivities! (The truck is still running but do you think Jerry will notice that dent in the...
I recently sprained my ankle, so my dear husband took over the coop tending for a few days. The ladies love him! He even made a video of our 16...
Bring on the cake and ice cream, It's KKng's big day, March 27! (Jerry is letting me drive the truck for a few days--hope I don't wreck it). [IMG]
House finches are a pretty common bird, but this one posed in a particularly cute way: [ATTACH] Only one weekend left in the Cornell count, which...
We saw our first hummingbird of the season on the first day of spring. It was casually sipping at the salvia greggii near the patio. Hope this is...
With all sorts of celebratory events coming up (end of school year, birthdays, anniversaries, memorials, etc.) many folks think that a balloon...
Our roses are really hitting their stride! Here are a few more that are blooming their heads off right now: [ATTACH] This is Esperanza, who I can...
When we discovered that the soil in back of the barn was very sandy, we were thrilled. We had that damaged part of the barn removed and ended up...
Some of our roses are blooming. Here are three:[ATTACH] This is Aloha, which is supposedly a climber. If so, she is a short one--only about 5'...
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