One of my coworkers has a blue heeler that comes to the nursing home with her from time to time to visit and brighten the day of the patients. He plays fetch with them and has a special dog water bottle that has a sideways bowl built into the lid. He also allows residents to …
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Quality Checking the Eggs
Recently at a party a man i had supplied with eggs for free at one time sat down beside me and told me that the eggs he was getting from the social worker were much better, the yolks were oranger and richer than mine. He accused me of never giving my chickens people food scraps …
A Tasty Week
Basically i want a spring roll but can only afford to buy them on special occasions because they are expensive. So i turned to youtube and learned how to make my own. Vwalah, store bought veggie spring roll at a fraction of the price cuz i made it myself. 🙂 I have other things on …
Cedar Allergy Remedy
I remembered hearing my boss say something about a guy who gave him cedar berries once and he ate them. I dont remember if he made a tea or just ate them. I vaguely remember him saying something about hoping he could get more because it cured his cedar allergies that year but he had …
A Trip to the Vet
The dogs needed their anal glands expressed. I didnt usually get them expressed outside of their checkup because they generally made solid poos and didnt have much to express. However, earlier this year they both had distemper and nearly died. They had runny and mucousy and even bloody poos for a long time and the …
A Diesel Engine
An old beat up diesel truck roared up the dirt path to my house. The dogs signaled alarm at the uninvited visitor. i had the urge to greet the visitor who was clearly pulling over 100 feet onto my property on purpose without permission, with a weapon. I fought the urge to exit the house …
You Know You’re in Texas When…
…scorpions are riding on trucks.
Muddy Dogs
It had been raining off and on all week. I came home one day and this is what i saw. Cashew must have rolled in the mud and then stood up and shaken some of it off because she wasn’t coated in it, but there were particles of mud on each strand of fur. It …
Rain
Everyone keeps saying we are forecasted to have a wet winter. The rivers are dry so we need the winter to be wet. We need to fill them again if we are to sustain life in this state. However, some are panicking because if the wet comes in the winter it will likely be in …
Sula’s Supper
I didn’t have Sula in mind when i emptied last week’s shavings from the pullet enclosure in the house and filled it with fresh ones. However, if there is a morsel of food somewhere, she finds it. She has been eating the discarded chicken scratch that the crazy birds kick out of the enclosure for …