Ruffled Feathers and Spilled Milk

Farming with ducks and dairy goats, chickens and children.

Happy Birthday, America. Revelation.

Our first stop in Louisville was Churchill Downs.  Now we are not actually fancy enough people to be fans of horse racing.  As a matter of fact, before the trip I tried to get the kids interested in the Kentucky Derby to no avail.  I talked about elaborate hats and famous horses and Middle just […]

Happy Birthday, America. In The Beginning.

Yeah, I know.  I was here and then I wasn’t and you probably thought I gave up the garden and the barn and bought a townhome with a pool and an HOA that handles the lawncare.  Don’t think I didn’t consider it after the fiasco that was this year’s sheep shearing.  Otherwise known as Fleece-Mutilation-and-Samantha’s-Big-Escape. […]

Off Work.

Many people think the hardest part of my job is the desperate call for help, the disturbing images of injury and death.  And that probably bothers some people in EMS.  But what keeps me awake at night is when someone calls for a piece of food stuck between his teeth or the sight of a […]

C’mon Already!

April 15th is the last frost date for my area. But I don’t think we can wait for warm temperatures any longer. The squash is blooming in the greenhouse. If it gets any bigger before being moved to the garden, it will suffer a lot of  transplant shock.

Spring Science.

I thoguht it was the Vitamin D.  After all, spring might bring a lot of chores, but it brings a lot of sunshine, too.  Perfectly warm sunshine with cooling breezes and enough shades of green to dazzle and awaken even the most bleary winter mind.  So even though the the first row of peas was […]

Of Course!

I totally forgot.  Didn’t even think about it.  Not once.  Until I got home from AAA with a bag full of TripTiks and travel books and the phone rang.  My friend had a doe whose labor was not progressing.  What did I suggest? That’s when I remembered.  Of course!  It’s kidding season!  There I was […]

A Cold Start.

Heavy snow and ice in February have been common the last couple years.  So last year’s garden went in later than usual to avoid a last minute freeze.  I didn’t even plant in the greenhouse until mid-March.  But I  have high hopes for this year.  I intend to take back the spring garden by force […]

Oh, really?

There was football today?  Really?  I didn’t notice at first. Because I took advantage of the snow day to dig out my owl box.  I’ve been collecting recycling and metal odds and ends for a long time  because I wanted to make some of these owls for the garden. I spread out all the supplies […]

Not To Scale.

Not too long ago I sat in a continuing education class about drug addiction.  The speaker, a recovering addict, told us that on a happiness scale most people live at about a 5 or 6 out of 10 on a daily basis.  He mentioned that we generally only experience a 10 out of 10 for […]

This Is Why We Clean.

I spend a lot of mornings around the kitchen sink.  It’s where I wash the breakfast dishes, where I cut and rinse fruit and veggies for lunchboxes, where I stand and watch the birds on the feeder while waiting for coffee to brew.  Above the sink I have a row of plants on the windowsill […]

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