Town Meeting

4 new subdivisions. A liquor store. A bar. A 24 hour gym. A gelato/wine/panini/antique shop. An art gallery. A new animal shelter. an expanded sewer and water line. I have a pit in my stomach. I had planned to fight to hold onto what i love until the end but take the wilderness and there’s …

New Life

Once a year the yard is overrun with baby toads. Eventually, i managed to catch one long enough to photograph it. This is a relatively small one but i’ve seen them tinier. These guys are hopping around the grass. Just yesterday i saw my first spotted fawn of the year. It was with 2 white …

The Down Home Country Parade

I had never been to the down home country parade. It went on every summer. Floats rolled down the main street behind pickups and people threw candy from the parade floats for the children to run out and grab. I hadnt been because i was an introvert that found large crowds of people exhausting and …

“but the world is burning…”

He who says to me, “i think it is selfish to bring children into a world that is so hopeless and broken”, i say to you that you have been sleeping throughout all of history. There was a time where stoning people to death was considered entertainment and skinning a person alive was considered an …

Honey Butter Wild Boar

Okay, before you absolutely poo poo this experimental cooking endeavor and run for the hills because you’ve read the words “wild boar” let me just tell you this cut of meat was so delicious. It is by far the best thing i have tasted yet in my quest to add new proteins to my diet …

A Cicada Molting

These little guys are good eating but this is a bit too late in the cycle to harvest. I would have had to get this guy right when he came out of the ground, before he went to look for some place to climb a tree and transform from an insect with paper thin skin …

Broody at the Worst Time

One of my hens has gone broody at the worst time. It is literally 107 degrees right now. Every day i have to go out there and take her off the eggs, collect them, and force her out if the coop to get a drink. As soon as she has done so she goes right …

Ren’s Banana Bread and 3 Bean Salad

My neighbor and friend Ren made me the most beautiful banana bread void of dairy, gluten, and eggs so that i could eat it. It was such a surprise and a treat i hadn’t enjoyed in over a decade. It was so wonderful i was in heaven. She also split her 3 bean salad with …