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As I said yesterday, the dog on the loom just had to go. And now it's gone. No full moon, no bonfire and certainly no dancing around said bonfire n...

I have talked about dogs on looms before. If you have a project that languishes on the loom for overly long, it may be a dog on the loom. Or if eve...

I'm a sucker for a nice Christmas wreath but it needs to be made of balsam and smell wonderful or it's not likely to spend much time on my front do...

We have had precious little rain the last couple of months. The grass, like pretty much everything else is dry, dry, dry. I can look out across my ...

I have always loved sunflowers but only in the last few years have we grown many. They came to planted in my front garden and were stunning. I've p...

We have been flirting with 100 degrees daily for the last few weeks. The grass is getting browner and almost feels crunchy when you walk on it. We ...

For some unknown reason, llama shearing was late this year. It usually happens in April but this time is was June. That's not a problem when the we...

This storm passed right over us this morning. We only got a few sprinkles of rain before it moved to the east. t.

I have a love/hate relationship with burn piles these days. We spent 15 years at our house in Simonton, TX and I used to burn all the time. Big bur...

I haven't been writing much these days but fortunately, our intrepid cat reporter Pedy has been on the job.  Take it away, Pedy.... Pedi Reporting...

I need to start out by saying that this February hasn't been nearly as bad as last February. Last year we were without power intermittently for fou...

I guess I put my blog on hiatus. I didn't intend to do that but somehow life kept getting in the way of me writing anything. I just checked the pho...