The Latest Carnage
Can you say enterovirus?I can.Can you say strawberry colored rash over you entire body, itching and scratching, low grade fever, swollen wrists, knees ankles and fingers, and a cloudy head?I can.Can...
View ArticleThe Birthday Party! The Birthday Boy! The Birthday Fun!
We celebrated my son's birthday today and I just HAD to share the cupcakes I made. I love the pirate cupcake liners I found in the grocery store. They really saved me and provided a great base on which...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Bread at the Farmer's Market
This morning started foggy and wonderfully crisp as a light drizzle misted down upon our town. This summer I have been spared the sizzling heat that normally bakes me dry and makes me feel like a...
View ArticleNot Again
Yep. Still sick. I am down for the count... Pneumonia. My weekly post is only going to be about a sentence. See ya on the other end of this.
View ArticleBingo's Big Words - Yes, I have a large vocabulary! And The Tall Lady is Not...
Good day humans!The Tall Lady had been quite ill, but I decided to help her out and write a post while she is recovering. Tonight she looks the best she has in about a eight days. She has a hop in her...
View ArticleNo Your Shoes are Still on Wrong, Yes I Can See You Hiding There and other...
Let's start off with my daughter Ella today. She has been the source of much happiness in my life with her sense of humor, her quick wit and kind and loving ways. She really is an angel in disguise as...
View ArticleA Fish Out of Water
I am not one for reposting stuff from the news but this one I just had to share. This fish was allegedly hooked in a lake in France and then released by the angler. It took 10 minutes to reel this 30...
View ArticleA Tragedy Has Befallen Our Compound. This Post is in Memory of an Intrepid...
I have sad news to report from the world of Our Simple Life. Sometimes there are events that are beyond our control and we must forge on in the face of sadness and grief...Last week we lost a valued...
View ArticleMy Son Is NOT Afraid of The Camera...
Imagine that.My son, Wyatt, has no fear of the camera. Either operating it or being the subject of photographic composition.I recently bought a small device to complement my camera arsenal called a...
View ArticleBeen Doing Research... Lost in Antiquity
I've been kind of obsessed lately doing research on houses like this...The thought of totally replacing our little hovel of a shack is fabulous. (We have lived in an 800 square foot house for seven...
View ArticleWhere the Heck Have I Been? I Really Don't Know Any More . . .
October? What happened to October? I can not explain October.A thick gray fog has clouded over my brain and there is a vague memory of a pink taffeta-adorned ballerina superhero and a brown...
View ArticleGuess the Mystery Bird, Sandpiles are Awesome, Jr. D gets Aggressive, Bingo...
Welcome to the mixed salad of my bloggy pictorial for this week. A little of this, a little of that, for a taste of everything light and mostly fresh.First I have a little soft calling bird. It's no...
View ArticlePhoto Story from the Cosumnes River Preserve - Wonderful Wild Waterfowl.
Come and join us on a trip back in time! It's an adventure to a land where the forces of nature run wild and animals teem in their natural environment. We're going to the Cosumnes River Preserve in the...
View ArticleThe Topping on the Christmas Tree
Another year.Another tree.A few more ornaments purchased.A few more broken.We got our tree today. It's a Home Depot special and we saved about 40 bucks in comparison to last year. And that's ok by...
View ArticleClimbing Fences
We have a wooden fence on our back property line which is ancient. Over the past nine years, I have often lamented that this fence needs replacement. Since we moved on to the property we call home,...
View ArticleMissing Blogger, Horses and Children
There is much that has not been blogged . . . My blogging time has evaporated somehow . . . However, my "vacation" from blogging has been much needed with projects being finished and "real" life taking...
View ArticleA Pair of Super Heros, Kidzilla, and the Scarecrow-Ballerina - Aren't Cousins...
There are days which shall live in infamy at the King Compound due to the sullen and miserable attitudes that spread from kid to kid like a virulent super virus ravaging the country side . . . But I am...
View ArticleI am on Shrike! I am on Shrike!
I have not been really, totally, super, hopping, jumping excited for ages about a bird nesting on our property. We have bluebirds, swallows, doves, killdeer and magpies that all use our trees and...
View ArticleBluebirds - Secret Polygamists Polyandrist or Failure to Launch?
Now wait a minute you all are saying . . . but really. I can only report what I observe with my own eyes and I can hardly make this stuff up. I've been tracking bluebirds on my property for seven years...
View ArticleSummer Vacation Begins or in other words "What to do with Wyatt"
Summer Vacation, Day 1With much fear and dread summer vacation has sprung on me like an angry swarm of ants. Biting and itching and possibly stinging . . . Maybe I have over reacted to the eminent...
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