Does life ever get crazy for you, my fair readers? It does for me, more often than I’d care to notice or admit. Wednesday March 18th was a bit crazy. I awoke feeling perfectly rotten, drove to the dentist and had my teeth cleaned in torrential rain, came home and laid about most of the…
My husband was a professional calf roper for around 20 years. While he was pounding the rodeo trail across the American mid-west during the eighties I was braiding My Little Ponies tail and pretending to be John Wayne. In the early nineties he was winning belt buckles, saddles and cash whilst I was lip-syncing to…
Don’t click this post if slugs gross you out ~ fair warning. It has been raining for what feels like 40 days and 40 nights. Looks a bit like it too, water in the driveway, water in the yard, water on the road, water in the chicken pen, water in the garden, water falling from…
I get a kick out of people who are afraid to let their kids get dirty. Now, I’m not saying you should let them lick the grocery cart handle, but a little honest mud (you know, dirt and water), never hurt anybody. Yes, one in a million catch some weird, awful, unheard of mud disease…
Wednesday March 4th was a bit odd. Not only did I go to Nacogdoches (almost an hour drive) to work at a feed store for the day, the lovely 80 degrees we were enjoying (if you recall last week my walk featured snow, AH!) dropped to 40 in a two-hour time period. And it rained…
So it has been raining for something like 5 days. And I am growing mold on my person. The horses are safely tucked inside the barn and the calves found a gate left slightly ajar Sunday afternoon. They made a run for it. First they all ran right…. Then they all ran left….. Then they…
As you probably know I spent 13 years in retail, 11 of those at a feed store and most days behind a sales counter. I was the face of the feed store and customer service was my main objective. There is an art to good customer service and it, like so many arts, is being…
There are roosters and there are roosters. Roosters are a lot like men. Some are tall and some are short. Some are loud, others quiet. Many are bold, others meek. Some are colorful, some dull. Some protective, some just plain…chicken. Roosters can be adorable or aggressive. Some are fluffy, others are missing a few feathers. …
I told Addie to make her bed. I wonder where she plans on sleeping……. The catfish looks stressed out by all the new residents on the bed. Only a six-year-old. 🙂
Females have a remarkable ability. They can tote about an itsy-bitsy egg until it is fertilized, let another small human develop a complete, tiny body inside them with an extremely accommodating belly then extract the little creature via painful pushes and sometimes incisions. A truly amazing process. I have a good friend who has done…
The Wicked Chicken 