Yesterday a friend of mine had his email hacked. I knew it when I got an email from him that began “Hey check this out!” as he doesn’t write like that. (I like the feature in gmail and maybe in [...]
A couple of weeks ago I looked out our living room window at smoke billowing up from trees, a couple of miles away, at the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in Colorado. Two miles suddenly seemed pretty close, [...]
We’re supposed to get snow in a couple of days, so we went walking nearby today, warm and sunny. Click on the image to see my photocollage larger… I’m so grateful to live in an incredibly beautiful place! Simple living [...]
A couple of years ago or so, I muttered to myself, “I gotta lose weight!” So in typical writerly style, I registered that as a website domain name: gottaloseweight.com. But I didn’t do a thing about it. Now, finally, I [...]
The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers–With information on building soil fertility, replacing purchased feed, and working with poultry in the garden by Harvey Ussery, is the most comprehensive [...]
We finally had our first real frost. At 8,000 feet here in Colorado, our average date of the first frost is about 12 days ago. Every extra day has been precious, but this morning the outdoor thermometer said 28 and [...]
