Cooler Weather

October brought cold fronts which finally took the temperatures below 90 degrees. It was no longer 113 degrees in the afternoons. The chickens survived another summer. They could finally exist without their daily bowl of ice cubes and frozen fruits to cool them from the inside out. We did it. We made it another year. …

High Winds

The wind began around sundown. Great heaving gusts that threw themselves against the house and caused it to snap and creak with every thundering rush. The dogs went ape sh*t. They lost the plot and ended up under my feet howling like banshees as they eyed the windows worryingly. I brushed my teeth, turned the …

“I’ll be in the car.”

There’s a really pissed off bee in my 384 square foot 1 room house. I guess he didn’t like being blown around by the gusts outside. A front is rolling in. I took a look at it, assessed its temperament and identified it was not a wasp, hornet, or fly. That was all i needed …