Weekly Photo Challenge: Door
Usually around this time of year, I start playing Christmas music and get a hankering to put up the Christmas tree. That’s why I thought this picture was fitting for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge. Jingle bells, jingle bells. Now where’s the eggnog?
Oink
The piglets are growing by leaps and bounds. Today, they discovered they like grapes and kale. It took a few tries with the grapes – they weren’t exactly sure what to do with them! Once I squished them, though, they quickly ate them up. Sweet potatoes are next on the menu. After a good meal……
Bird on a wire
Caught this little guy outside my window, taking a break during a rainstorm.
I’m no prude, but would you please put your nipples away
Nipples. Everybody’s got ’em. If I want to see them, I can just look in the mirror. No big deal. They are, after all, just nips. However, I do not like being constantly bombarded by them. Popping up all over. Slippin’ out. I understand that a well-placed nip can be a very powerful tool, capable…
Wordless Wednesday: after the storm
You a funny lookin’ pig
Piglet: “You a funny lookin’ hairy pig.” Dog: “You a ugly puppy.” “We one big happy family. Now where’s the food?”
Weekly Photo Challenge: Muse
MUSE is the theme of the Weekly Photo Challenge. I used to love taking pictures of my kids. Now that both are in their late teens, sitting and smiling for the camera is not in their repertoire. Teenagers… So, I turn to the farm animals. They are always happy to see me, never complain and…
Helluvagood apple pie recipe
I L.O.V.E. pie. Bake me a good apple pie and I’ll be your friend forever. This recipe contains the unusual step of partially cooking the apples before they’re put into the pie. But that’s the secret. The apples are always perfectly done – no half-cooked or mushy apples here. Another perk of this recipe – the…
Slippery manure and other unfortunate mishaps
THE “HERE A PIG, THERE A PIG, EVERYWHERE A PIG, PIG” INCIDENT The piglets arrived. I quickly learned that they are deceivingly fast – I mean NASCAR fast. And nearly as impossible to catch. You wouldn’t think that a big-eared, fat-bodied, stumpy legged animal could have such an unbelievable amount of horsepower under the hood…
Wordless Wednesday: evolution of a peony
Weekly Photo Challenge: Roy G Biv (on the farm)
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge theme is Roy G Biv and a quick walk around the farm revealed a rainbow of colors… red barn orange slow moving vehicle sign yellow baby chicks green unripened blueberries blue Ford tractor indigo Purple Beauty tomato violet flowers
When hate becomes acceptable
When hate becomes acceptable, we are all doomed. Why is there an unwritten rule that says “if I am different from you, I am unacceptable and if you are different from me, you are unacceptable.” Why is it that we’ve become so numb to human tragedy? Terrible violence just becomes ANOTHER shooting, ANOTHER terror attack,…
The bitter beetle battle
They came like thieves in the night and bushwhacked my tomatoes. {cue dramatic music} FLEA BEETLES… And so begins another chapter of the bitter beetle battle. Last summer, I successfully fought off an onslaught of Japanese beetles, only to be dealt a devastating defeat by the cucumber beetle. Now, flea beetles have laid siege to…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Off-Season
This week’s Word Press Weekly Photo Challenge theme is off-season. Winter was the first thing that came to my mind and I knew the exact picture I wanted to use. I took this picture right after one of the numerous snowstorms this winter. It’s a barn just a short walk from my house. But then…
The Farmers in the Dell 