It just hit me lately — I think I am a procrastinator!! Well, I actually KNEW I procrastinated about some things, like cleaning out the basement, or the freezer. But it hit me the other day that my beloved lists may indeed be procrastination in disguise!! Are you a list maker? I LOVE lists! I…
Is it trash or is it treasure? Whatever it is we’re looking at, it’s all in HOW we look at it. ln WHO looks at it. It’s all in the perspective from which we look. As we know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! The word “trash” and “treasure” can be interchanged with…
Starting in May and stretching through June, miller moth season sweeps across the High Plains and into the foothills of the Rockies. It is a revolting, yet oddly fascinating spectacle that happens every spring. I don’t know how far north, or how far south it goes, but I DO know that it DEFINITELY goes right…
I have an infatuation with the sky. Maybe it’s because this sky is so BIG out here on the plains. Or maybe it’s because a farmer’s very being depends on what happens in the sky! Or….maybe it’s just me. When I lived over in paradise -aka, the Rockies- I loved the sky there, too….there just…
My heart is wounded. SOMEONE–one of my beloved chickens–VICIOUSLY attacked Beatrice, one of my Barred Rock “babies”. A bit graphic here, but it looked like a raid on a covered wagon train. They took her scalp. Here they are…..a few days before the attack. Left to right: Samuel, Pierre, Agatha, and the fated Beatrice. Cuties!…
