Archive for May, 2006
A Resolution to Felonious Activity
Faithful readers will recall a recent post about a wild animal raiding the chicken yard. In that previous post I said,
If it is a fox I think the layout of the chicken yard leaves me with the only choice of hoping there is such a ruckus the next time he comes that I catch him […]
Say What?
Speak Art: Babble on Babble
This morning while I ate breakfast I flipped through an issue of Garden Design magazine. It’s too hoity-toity for my taste but the magazine was nearby and what are you going to do–stare at the table while you eat your granola?
While flipping through the magazine I came across a short blurb […]
A Call From The Past
Back in my childhood my family spent a few years living in a small town trailer park. Every week Mom, with little kids in tow, would troop down to the local library. It was a small town with a small library which was really a converted house. Small as it was to an adult, to […]
Zipping Away
Haven Kimmel is a gifted writer. I was introduced to her writing several years ago with the childhood memoir, A Girl Named Zippy. That first rousing (and hilarious) success has been followed by the sequel She Got up Off the Couch. The sequel follows the adventures of Kimmel’s mother, and her entire family, as much […]
Leafing Out
We are on the cusp. We balance for this one moment–these few short days–at the place of middle spring.
The grass has greened, but the trees have not yet burst into full leaf. It is fascinating to look at the hillside and see how different varieties progress. In some places bare wooden branches stick up, rimmed […]
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