We finally caught this raccoon who has been raiding the dog food – another unwelcome guest! I just had to unfriend someone after a decade-long friendship. It was hard. Our children liked to play together. She is going through a really hard time in her life, and I felt sorry for her. We have things…
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Local Dad Finds One Cool Trick For Storing Tons of Back Fat
Ethan got out the meat grinder and tons of frozen back fat the other day in an effort to create more freezer space. It seems to work really well storing the fat like this. It doesn’t get moldy or go rancid the way rendered fat does. You just chip off what you need and throw…
Nutcracker
This week has been full of Nutcracker performances – it’s Rose’s second year, and she’s a soldier again. It’s a fun part, and she has really enjoyed it so far. Clothilde went to the school show this morning and loved it. She’s been waking up so early this week (before it is even light out). …
Several Things
We’ve had a quiet past two weeks…I had a very small hand in Thanksgiving this year. It was spent with lots of family, mostly Ethan’s family. My brother got stuck talking to Ethan’s crazy uncle for a long time (“who was that guy?” he asked my parents later. “Angie warned us about him,” my mom…
Chestnut’s New Calf
We’ve been expecting Chestnut to have her baby any day for about a month at least. She had the “heavily pregnant lady waddle” and every day looked about to have her baby within the next few hours, but somehow managed to look even more pregnant and ready to calve the next day. On Friday when…
Return from the Underworld
Last week I suddenly became very, very sick. I have never been so sick before in my life. For days it felt like I was wandering on my way to the Underworld – darkness, visions, pain, and somehow, strange and beautiful music ringing constantly in my ears. I finally went to the hospital and had…
The Tower
Mrs. Gophy, our neighbor Gopher Tortoise, had a little one hatch out this year. Last year there were three, this year there was only one that we saw. Newborn tortoises are so unbelievably small! Clothilde named it Sandy before it crawled away. An interesting thing happened to me last week. It all started Thursday evening…
Rain, Rain, Rain
A gorgeous Imperial moth that was in the barn Really the only one word sums up the past few days – sopping. Buckets of rain. Three inches in one afternoon (in the space of a couple of hours). That was the day I felt like I was walking through a sprinkler. The afternoon sun was…
Changes in the Air
May got half of a poke bush stuck on her head! In-town it is still very hot and muggy, with clouds of mosquitoes. But at the farm there are hints of fall. It’s still hot, and it’s still humid, but there’s something about the air. The smells are different, and in the eveinings cool breezes…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 