My blog friend Shannon over at the Not So Virtual Homestead was writing recently about a huge egg that one of her chickens surprised her w...

Decoys on the water. They do look amazingly real from a distance. The last time our In the Army Now nephew was here, he came back from a w...

Show floor just after set-up My feet are still tired, but we survived our first spring craft show. We managed to achieve our two main goals,...

As promised, here is a summer view of the workshop. It will probably never look this nice again. I took the photo when we were first thinkin...

Jasmine loves chasing the Great Blue Herons. They're big and they squawk a lot when disturbed. Herons are smarter than you might think.....

An autumn view of the workshop where I'm holed up working like a maniac this week. We've got a craft show that starts Friday, and a...

Blue-winged teal decoys When my husband had the idea of putting decoys on the pond to attract ducks, I thought he was nuts. Jasmine chases o...

The kind of thing you think you'd be geting away from out in the woods

One of Jasmine's favorite games is to find ways to get outside the fence. We repair the fence, then she finds (or creates) another plac...

The result of too many roosters Roosters tend to hang on to the hens' combs and the feathers on their heads. We currently have too many ...

For the past two days we've heard a symphony of frogs in the late afternoon and early evening. Down by the swamp the noise is almost de...

I've got small feet, but that seems like a pretty big deer print to me. The back parts of their hooves splay apart sometimes in the mud,...

Sapsucker holes in cedar Edited to say: Here's what a yellow-bellied sapsucker looks like. One of these days I might get lucky and get ...

Jacob's Ladder Foliage (Polemonium reptans) Virginia Bluebells Foliage (Mertensia virginica). Still weeks from blooming. A little trilli...