Congratulations on your new property! When will the building of your new home start? Could salvaged wood from the old cabin become a potting shed?...
Netty, just say that you make things grow, and one of the best things you have ever grown is your lovely, loving daughter. I guarantee there won't...
Our news here is sketchy about the flooding in Iowa, but I've been hoping our members are high, dry, and safe. If Pianolady, anaid, Cjay and...
Happy Birthday to the Countess of Cutification! [ATTACH]
Netty, I don't want to leave home! Husband says I'm a regular "stick-in-the-farm" since I only go into town under duress, and it takes a trip to a...
Nascar, not NasCAT? How terribly disappointing.
Oh yes Frank--perfect! Love your take on life and humor.
Going down our path to the barn, this is what you see across our pasture: [ATTACH] The farm in back of us has had four cuttings of hay this year,...
It could be winterberry (Ilex verticillata) which is a holly. The berries are an important winter food source for birds. It is actually a shrub,...
Well, I found that licking the monitor screen just doesn't give the taste of that lovely, thick, creamed honey--darn! If we have an excess...
Have a good trip, and I hope the change of scene helps the healing process. If you happen to pass a particularly attractive junque place, feel...
Barb, there is a small community near here that holds an annual rattlesnake hunt. You can get rattler burgers, snake kabobs, and other delicacies...
We haven't seen any V-forms of waterfowl flying over, but it's still early for geese and ducks to do that. We still have hummingbirds at the...
Today is the first official day of autumn, and we have several signs that fall is coming! We had an Inca dove on our path to the barn--haven't...
Barb, I can send you some rattlesnake meat, still alive and squirming. How fresh can it get? I love crab, but agree that getting at the good part...
Haven't tried ostrich or kangaroo, but rattlesnake is pretty tasty! And no, it doesn't taste like chicken, at least any chicken I know. Philip,...
Kitties sit in colorful carriers, dogs have leashes.
Yes Netty, we'd love to see photos of your ribbons and prize winning entries! Toni, a fellow gardener hereabouts swears by "planting by the moon."...
What a shame, but how typical of you, Kildale, to take a photo of the sapsucker on the fallen tree. You made lemonade from a lemon!
Gee Toni, and I thought I was a bit overboard about my hens!