pile of o'melays

tabitha has been making bone-broth chicken soup regularly since our quitting milk. i guess that cooking the bones for extended periods makes...

our friends bought roary and are taking nimue to the sale barn for us. we were very happy last evening to have them gone. then it happened.....

toly in his new totoro sweater and kassi are ready to go to the store with me. we had a great time. toly, kassi and myself are an unusual su...

garden planning, garden planning tra-la-la-la. maybe it is because the weather has been especially mild lately and feigning the end of winte...

it's a joke that my father-in-law always says about any gardening activity. just after he'd plant beets he'd say "it's ...

the count of monte cristo is my favorite book. i like don quixote almost as much. i aspire to live life like alonso quixano but realize i am...

well it happened. creepy people have found my blog and made a creepy comment. it was creepy for creepiness sake. i have struggled what to do...

tabitha found a piano. Harry gave it to us and helped me load it. what a wonderful christmas present. it is little and fits in perfectly int...

the tree our own bath scene like in my neighbor totoro things are getting better around here. illnesses are waning. holiday expectations are...

recently we have been the recipients of some glorious "get well" meals. we have friends that we didn't even know we had. the t...

day three, visit number three to the urgent care. imagine rome and toly both have ear infections now. holy crap will this ever end? lets see...

thank you all for your generous comments and well wishes. i'm not really a complainer but i strongly believe in the collective conscious...

tabitha has pneumonia frighteningly bad. tristan and kassi both have strep throat. tristan has a severe case. the doctor almost prescribed t...

We live in rural Missouri. Any alternative form of transportation besides a gas guzzling car is impossible. Roads are narrow and won't s...

toly has pneumonia. we are getting around to go to the distant medical facility for some high powered antibiotic. allegedly very painful. he...

our world is going to change. toly's issues have sent us on an elimination diet. the first thing we are going to remove is milk. we have...

first we are being encroached upon. one offender is our neighbor with whom there is no love-loss. he is our closest neighbor and is the most...

henry running to see me. such a good dog. i plan to put steel on the roof of this storage shed. this is the steel. the stack just to the rig...

fall is here. there are heaps of leaves in the yard. i plan to borrow a leaf blower and burn as many as possible in the garden--maybe tomorr...

luna died yesterday, i'm sad. she was a great dog and i'll miss her.