The hens are molting. It’s a shame, too, because this is quite the coldest weather we’ve had in a couple of years. Not out of the 30s today. Doesn’t sound like much to you, maybe, but neither does your summer high of 90 sound like much to me. Remind me next summer: heat is annoying [...]
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seasonal confusion
December 4, 2009dog days redux
July 28, 2009Back in Texas, it’s dog days. Definitely not chicken days. One of our chickens died yesterday, probably just from the heat. I feel terrible about it. I think she got trapped in the shade island out there and didn’t want to go out in the sun even for the short time it would take to [...]
MooJesus
June 6, 2009“What if it’s a cult?” said I, as we bumped over the cattle guard and the ranch gate closed behind us. What if that sweetly reasonable website was a lure and a trap for the unsaved such as ourselves?
We visited the MooJesus raw dairy today. Had to, once we saw the name of the [...]
paying attention
May 3, 2009Last year I bought a jar of dried oregano. This despite having a half-barrel of the stuff growing out in the backyard. Oregano is one of those herbs I like best to use in dried form, and when I’m cooking, that means I want to reach out and grab the jar a few feet from [...]
pure luck
April 19, 2009I’m feeling incredibly lucky, not to mention wealthy, today. Texas-blessed. First of all, it rained. A lot. For a couple of days. We’ve been seriously moisture-challenged for months, at the cattle-are-dying level. It rained and it rained and then it stopped and clear dry air blew in. Now it’s one of those perfect Hill-Country-spring Sunday [...]
lasagna weekend
February 16, 2009While I finished my tax gig, T layered up a lasagna garden bed. He had a couple of helpers, as you can see. We half-filled another frame yesterday and set our new fence posts in concrete. Now we are tired.
dirty mind
January 28, 2009Can you believe it’s time to start tomato seeds again? I’ll spare you the blow-by-blow this time. One of my more impolite friends hints that it’s extremely tedious to read about kitty litter buckets and blossom drop. He needs to go forth and plant his own, I say. Meanwhile, I’m going to repeat the upside-down [...]
