Guess what…

Uh, huh. Go ahead…just what you’d hear from your 10 year old…chicken butt!!!!
Oh, geez, I never would have thought that keeping chickens would result in such things, but I had to wash Maisy’s butt today. Here’s Maisy, last year just before she started laying:
Once she started laying last year (on September 8, 2007 to be [...]

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Back to the real world…

I had to return to the city and the stress and the family stuff I’ve been dealing with much too soon. Such is life, I guess.
One of the things I’m trying to do to reduce the amount of crap I’m dealing with is to re-home our cat. Fiona has been with us since she was [...]

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Beauty

In this place and time, it is impossible not to find extraordinary beauty all around you.
The weather promises to continue being perfect, too. I just don’t know what to say, frankly. “Having a wonderful time” sounds so vapid, even if it is true. (There are lots more photos like this in my Flickr set. I [...]

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Into the woods

It’s a peaceful morning here at Chain Lake where the day starts with the calls of birds, the scurrying of squirrels through the fallen leaves (they have the kind that have beautiful black pelts here), and the occasional gunshot from a hunter. Well, I assume the shots I heard this morning were from hunters at least. I’m [...]

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On the road

I know the posts have been few and far between these days, but the reasons are a bit complex and very personal. As I don’t typically use this blog to go into deeply personal matters, I’m not going to go into any of the gory details here. My close friends are aware of the challenges I’ve [...]

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