For strange cosmic reasons, all email sent to me in the past 24 hours or so has been directed to never-never land. If you've sent me any...

She must've had a hard cat day...

The hens are on strike! We haven't had an egg in over a month. After they're a year old, most chickens molt and stop laying in the f...

Man, leaning over to peer through an empty space in the megamart dairy cooler, presumably to speak to someone in the stock room: "Is th...

Guess what I had for lunch. A special treat! How'd you guess?! Hey wait a minute.

Great linkage: The always-fun Friday Ark . And a densely-growing Festival of the Trees !

Slow game cam week, but a busy week for me. (More about that later.) As of last weekend, most of the new Cuddeback pictures were fuzzy rear-...

A new edition of I and the Bird is up at Five Wells . Go see!

We have a new TV channel that's been airing some old British science fiction programs. One show we watched yesterday was set in a future...

Happy turkey day!

Before After One of the purple thistles. I have to admit I didn't examine it closely, but I'm leaning towards Canada thistle ( Cirsi...

It wasn't that we didn't plant watermelons early. We did. It's just that they were part of the straw-bale gardening experiment ...

It worked! Hubby put the game cam where something seemed to have created a path from the creek to the pond. We'd seen fresh otter scat n...

Lots of coming and going in the woods... Pair of bobcats! I've noticed that at least one of the local bobcats is sort of sway-backed... ...