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The Arctic Storm
I had 10 full days notice that an arctic storm was coming and honestly thats the only reason we fared as well as we did through this one. I was covering a full time therapist’s caseload while she was out of the country visiting family for Christmas. It was a 50 minute drive there, a …
Yummy Japanese Food!
Because i have family members who are Japanese, i sometimes find myself with delicious Japanese food. For Christmas i got this multipack of miso soups containing my all time favorite favorite packet soup, fried eggplant miso soup! It is amazing and the best part about it is that the flavor lingers and you can remember …
Back When the World Made (Some) Sense
I was in an antique town recently and somebody gave me a piece of candy. I realized that nowadays we have gummies in hamburger kits where each gummy is shaped like the burger, the bun, pickles, lettuce, or tomato. We have candies within candies, like when you go to the store and it advertises on …
Chatting with my Neighbor’s Longhorns
For most people livestock are possessions. They’re just something to own. For me they’re more like neighbors. Just like the deer they too have a whole language…not of snorts but of dinosaur sounding terra-dactyl noises. There is a specific noise for “i’m hungry. Where’s the truck that brings us food?” Theres a different noise for …
A Short Trip to the Well House
Once a year in the winter i make sure to fill the water softener barrel to the top with salt chips in case i dont feel like battling the wasps in the spring to get in there. The last time i did do battle i won but the barrel ended up full of dead wasps. …
An Egg Appears
This year was unseasonably hot and dry. It was so dry that i only had to mow the grass once all year because back in April it died. It was so hot we didn’t have a hard freeze until mid December. This seems to have confused the chickens greatly. Thinking they somehow missed winter and …
Christmas in the Country
Move to the country. You’ll find people gift each other food much more often than trinkets during the holiday season. There are two reasons for that. The gift giver is strapped for cash and the gift receiver is strapped for cash. When you live paycheck to paycheck and theres always some new expense or repair …
The Feed Store is Closing
The feed store in our little town is closing. Not only do they have their own amazing blends of animal feed that keep horses and chickens shiny and healthy and beautiful…we are losing The customer service that is a leftover of generations gone before us. I drove around for 2.5 hours sampling the feed selection …
Changing the Lightbulbs
I was going to change the lightbulbs at 4 pm and then do the evening yard chores at 5 pm before the sun would be down at 6 pm. I laid down for a nap at 2:30 and woke up at 7. It was dark. The dogs were nowhere to be seen. The chickens were …