Milkweed & Teasel

We just returned from the vets who confirmed that Podge the cocker spaniel is expecting. The scan showed five tiny Podgelets, a perfect-size...

I'm updating you from inside the bunker, i.e. my living room with the wood stove blazing, in a full set of long johns plus thermal tro...

The weather has been so hostile and uncooperative - days of continuous Arctic winds yet still muddy underfoot - that I give up and go indoor...

This past weekend was the local Gamekeepers' Fair, sort of a trade show with assorted 'keeper necessities all in one place. As a rul...

I'm desperate for spring to hurry up and get here, just so the soil will warm up and the grass will grow. The horses are grazing between...

Scene: A morning discussion over a cup of tea, the SyFy channel is on in the backround. MIKE "I like this show." (he thinks...

Winter's still here with below zero temperatures, but it's been dry for over a week. It's impossible to overstate just what a ps...