I want to know. Are the poor decisions kids make out of innocent thinking or sheer ignorance? Take for example my sweet Addie, lover of chickens, worms, snails, slugs, tadpoles, horses, the color pink, Third Day Christmas songs, mud and stuffed animals. All-in-all what you would call a smart, cute, well-rounded child. Plays the piano,…
My mom has a picture of me when I was about 6 years old, riding my dad’s Harley with him. That was the coolest I’ve ever been and the pinnacle of my biker days. Except for a brief period in my early 20’s when I found myself in possession of a “crotch rocket” I couldn’t…
I was in Nacogdoches yet again for work and Addie was my helper for the entire 10 hour day. After we closed down the store we needed to stretch our legs a bit and since it wasn’t raining, thank God, we went over to the arboretum at Stephen F. Austin state university. SFA happened to be the location…
Remember those adorable chicks I introduced y’all to last month? Well they have been growing like crazy and were REALLY ready to bust out of their little crate alongside their mother. So I let them out to explore the world they hatched into and while doing so discovered something. Baby chickens are the most difficult thing…
Yes. I know I should have posted this a month ago. But it was either now or wait until next April. Or I guess I could have waited until October and shocked your eyeballs with a blast of purple. Then again the rapture may happen this summer and you would never see the glory that was…
Piglet, Winnie-The-Pooh’s best friend, paddles furiously to a tune that goes something like this “And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down and Piglet started bailing! He was unaware while a’top his chair while bailing he was sailing….” as poor Piglet floats right out of his house, out of his yard and is carried…
So I went grocery shopping, because for some, strange reason the people who live with me think they need to eat on a regular basis. I could live on walnuts, wine and coffee but they require more. So after a hectic afternoon, plus a trip yet again to the dentist’s chair I finally made it…
I don’t think this has ever happened to me. Today, when Addie and I went to collect the eggs, we noticed there were more than usual. A LOT more. Lo and behold we began to count….1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, …….12, 13, 14, 15………21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28! Every single, chicken…
The last Wednesday in April was cool, clear and glorious! All I had to do that day was see the dentist at 2:00 plus run some small errands. So I took it upon myself to go up to the main section of the state forest surrounding our home for a lengthy, leisurely, restful walk. Here…
I’ve never had a desire to incubate eggs and I honestly don’t like letting hens set a nest. It always seems to end poorly for the hatchlings. But when I found this nest in the hay, for some reason, I left it alone. A few days later I spy the mama. My funny, anti-social hen…
The Wicked Chicken 