When working in the hill country there is always the chance that your patients’ family members will bring in produce and set a box of it on the table for people to take one each. So far this year theres been peaches and plums brought in. However, in past years people have brought squash, tomatoes, …
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Century Plant
It got confused as to which way was up. This agave is in fact putting up a spine…its just curved and kind of stuck in the fence. Anyways, this is its last hurrah as after this action the plant dies.
My Relationship with Cooking
It’s not that i hate cooking. It is more that i hate not doing good food justice. My mother is a chef. Ive also had the privilege of tasting seafood freshly caught from the ocean and tasting fruit freshly picked and veg still with dirt on it from the garden it was pulled from that …
A Sheep at a Stoplight
Only in the country.
The Fruit Growing Hack of Produce Bags
The grasshoppers eat all my berries. They eat everything! I figured out a hack a couple years ago. I go buy mesh produce bags with a cinch cord at the grocery store and put them over young berries. It allows them to grow while hidden away from the grasshoppers reach. Then when its ripe i …
The Worst Year Yet of Scorpions
We had a warm winter and evenly spaced bouts of light rain. Nothing died. Im killing an average of 1 scorpion nightly in the house. Sometimes two. This is a record as previous years brought one a week at most. Although sometimes they surprise me and crawl across the floor in broad daylight. Weapon of …
A New Ladder for the Homestead
Ive been trying not to spend money lately as having my government credit for health insurance revoked was a $7,000 surprise expense i have not yet recovered from. apparently making exactly the yearly amount a study from 8 years ago deemed was the minimum someone could earn and comfortably be able to afford basic expenses …
Oashni
This fawn is a very well behaved one. She or he does whatever its mother says. It is the appropriate amount of timid and it is a good hider. Things between myself, the dogs, Oashni, and Sula went off the rails right from the morning of day 2. Sula appears to be at her most …
The Hill Country Sky
From what i am told it is that time of year when the fields are set ablaze in mexico to render the ground fertile for new crops. For the past few months the sky has been thick with haze and the horizon has been somewhat blurred by the particulates suspended in the air. this has …
The Annual Daddy Long Leg Porch Convention
Well, it is that time again. The daddy long legs have arrived and amassed as a cluster on the porch. Actually right this moment there are currently three clusters on the porch ceiling, stragglers gathered in my potted plants, and a number of them climbing up the walls of the house. Once they pick a …
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