Seasons
Getting Tucked In
Dear Reader, I need to quit thinkin’ I have until October 15th to get things ready for frost. First off, it isn’t like it only takes one afternoon to do everything, second, it’s not like it is always on October 15th. It’s an average date! And average means in between early and late! And especially when … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part Two, Clean Up Begins
Continued from yesterday morning Since I have been in earth moving mode and knowing I need a decent parking place for visitors to the Farm and Market Shed I tackled the parking area yesterday (Tuesday). Removing all the peat like top soil, smoothing out the naked clay layer, ready for some foundational fill dirt … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part One, the Wonder and the Havoc
Three weeks ago, on January seventeenth, the whole of the Pacific Northwest received a large dumping of snow overnight, on top of a fairly typical earlier snowing, short lived and melty, on the fifteenth and sixteenth. Nearly as soon as we woke up on the eighteenth and were … Continue reading
Thanks
Header Challenge day again. Kathy has chosen “Thanks” for this week’s theme. Thanksgiving, a National Holiday A national holiday for some of the challengers (go see them from my sideboard links), including me, but not the others from other lands (they’re on the sideboard too). Which has always been really confusing to me. That other … Continue reading
Delicious!
It must be delicious, look at the claws digging in! And he’d really appreciate me and the camera moving on so that he can finish his meal. Just in case that isn’t your cup o’ tea for a delicious something how about…this… Sunshine, a kabocha type winter squash, is one of our absolute favorites. Funny, … Continue reading
Bran’ New
Bran’ New Goslings, my entry for this week’s Header Challenge. And yes, it was my choice for the theme, and yes, I knew exactly what I wanted to put up, so yes, I picked the theme to fit my picture! I don’t usually take advantage of my choice week like that but I couldn’t resist. … Continue reading
Take Flight
This week the theme for the Header Challenge (see far right sideboard) is “Flight” chosen by Dave. O’ boy does my spirit need to take flight on the back of a fluttering narcissus; soar into brighter, sunnier states of heart from where it dwells at present, the reality of ankle deep muds and boot cresting lakes of … Continue reading
Spring Will Be Here in Just a Few More Minutes
oops, it actually got here, at 4:21 (7:21 EDT), while I was distracted from posting this post…. But as we all know the season comes when it wants to and often none of the seasons ever seem to coincide with their appointed times, solstices and equinoxes. You may, depending upon where you live and your mind-set, … Continue reading
Pipes in the Hippy Hot Hut
No my eyes aren’t red this mornin’. But when the theme for the Header Challenge was picked as Pipes for this week I knew exactly what pipes I would be takin’ a picture of. “But wait”, you say. “Your header is of a rooster crowing?” Yes, he does have a heck of a set of … Continue reading
Betwixt and Between
This week’s Header Challenge theme was selected by Stewart, aka IMac. He said it was because we were betwixt and between Christmas and New Year. This was going to be a hard one for me, I get the in between the holidays thing, but really, our Christmas here at the Farm doesn’t end till January … Continue reading
