I flushed the toilet.
But it didn’t flush.
At first I was unfazed by the toilet’s rapid filling with water. We have a new toilet, but unfortunately it is a disobedient one. Far too often it acts rebellious when asked to flush. Sometimes it will fill threateningly all the way up to the top with water, and […]

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Fall is the time when people around here start thinking (sometimes belatedly) about preparing for winter. Last winter K.D., a neighbor living a street over, had problems with her barn pump freezing up. As this fall came around, she thought it was a good idea to figure out what was causing her pump to freeze […]

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Last Sunday was a day to make applesauce. It is a group effort due to the amount of labor involved in cutting up all the apples, cooking them down to sauce, sending the cooked pulp through the Squeez-o and then canning the applesauce. It becomes something of an all afternoon festival around here.
I like tending […]

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I’ve read Frans Kafka’s The Trial. I don’t care much for Kafka’s writing style so I haven’t gone on to read any more of his works. Though I don’t care for The Trial there is a certain uniqueness about the style in which it was written. Kafka’s method in The Trial is perhaps almost brilliantly […]

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It would be so nice if frost were one of those predictable things. Garden planning would make great advancements if the effective beginning and end of the growing season were known with the certainty of the yearly appearance of holidays. Unfortunately, the date of the last frost of spring and the first frost of fall […]

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