Spent an hour or so this morning building a chicken tractor so my hens can get out of their sandy run now and then and pretend to free range through the yard. They are HAPPY. Look, a BUG!
Well, it was nice for a couple of days to have cooler weather and no rain except during the night. Today another deluge. Water table in the Carolinas has got to be approaching, oh, say the root zone of carrots? At least no local road or bridge washouts. No hillsides slithering down onto...
Counting down to Yard Sale on Friday. There is just so much STUFF - especially toys. Thought I'd been through all the toy boxes and closets for them....then moved on to the garage yesterday and found boxes and boxes of them. Sorting and reboxing, washing and trying to piece together things...
Backyard hen egg and Eggland's Best egg
backyard yolk and EB yolk
cornbread fixings with lots of sage just picked from the garden
Sage Cornbread Muffins to go with a crockpot full of Mexican Chili and some rice
More rain off and on again today and facing more for the next week. BUT my son and I noticed at about 9 pm that it wasn't raining! So we ran outside with our fireworks and set off most of them. And between the booms and pops of ours we could hear other folks in this wet little town doing the...
I bought some REAL fireworks the last time I was in SC and we tried and tried and tried to use them last night - but got chased in by rain showers time and time again. At this rate we'll be setting them off some clear night in August.
I am wading through toy boxes and closets, under beds and into cabinets and junk drawers - for a month or two - setting things aside for a yard sale. So many decisions and memories. So much dust and dog hair (how DOES it get into toy boxes in the closet?) Never mind the Smarties, Ritz...
In August my parents, 91 and 86, will celebrate their 64th anniversary. Parents of 8 children, they have 19 grandchildren and, so far, 10 great grandchildren.
Good morning. Having to wring out over this way. I think I've had about enough gullywashers for one year. Wish this rain would spread out to, say, a good overnight shower once a week all year long. But....it's better than a drought. And a whole lot better than facing hurricanes or...