Painting The Carport, Part I
I’ve heard it said that the most stressful times in a person’s life may be moving, having a child, breaking up or divorce, undergoing construction — or experiencing a death. I’ve often joked that at...
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Last week I began this column, but it became much too long. I ended with a joke about an exhibit of bulls and a husband who ended up in traction after the wrong comment to his wife. Now that might not...
View ArticleComing Full Circle
I was sitting in Zack’s woodworking shop this morning, shelling black-eyed peas I picked from our garden. This is the same garden we painstakingly prepare each year, agonizing over late freezes, then...
View ArticleToad Relocation Program
We’ve known for some years that there was a burgeoning toad population at the ranch. Frogs, toads, not sure I can tell the difference without a few minutes on the Internet to refresh my memory (some...
View ArticleBees!
Zack has fond, childhood memories of helping to rob honey from the bees his grandfather kept. Later, Zack and his father kept a few bees as well. So for years, Zack has talked of having our own bees...
View ArticleSummer Time 2010
Ah, summer, the season of lovely, growing things. Summer’s about to kill me. All around us, there has been rain, but oh no, not here. We often claim we live in some sort of meteorological black hole....
View ArticlePlum Good
I have fond, if hot, memories of my parents making plum and grape jelly. I remember accompanying them to pick the plums at least once when I was very small, probably too small to do much actual...
View ArticleSummer’s No Vacation
Have you ever noticed that things seem to break and generally mess up or need attention in batches, never only one at a time? We just discovered that one of the bulls is limping. We don’t know why....
View ArticleMid Summer — Lots Of Peaches
I’m still picking peaches from our trees, and they’re also falling off faster than I can use them. Fifty cups of peaches have been frozen, so I’m expecting our ancient freezer to go out sometime this...
View ArticleFickle Fashion Yet Again
I made the mistake of looking at my daughter’s fashion magazines yet again. These things either make me laugh or make me mad. Sometimes they cause me to scratch my head. I always find amazing all the...
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