It took me a few minutes of doing my rounds this morning to realize that things were a bit quiet out there. Too quiet. The roosters weren't crowing and the hens weren't clucking up a storm, which is not normal. Usually they are as noisy as, well, a hen house, as they take turns going …
Even though it's fall and most of the flowers have died off and the bulk of our garden has been harvested, there are still a few things left here and there, like the peas which don't seem to want to stop giving and giving... The sunflowers have mostly all died now, and the heads I …
I went outside last night just after sunset, hoping to catch a final good view of the harvest moon which is in its third day (or night rather) but it was cloudy enough that not even a hint of moonshine was to be seen. Bummer. Oh well, at least I got it the first night …
Yesterday afternoon we set out to take the pups for a much needed run up in the foothills. It's been ages since we did some dry land mushing and it was pretty apparent right away that they had all but forgotten how to mush after spending the summer lounging by the pool, napping in the …
It's that time of year when the garden and flowerbeds look a bit rough, mostly because we are letting a lot of things go to seed. Which means we don't pull the dead stuff and we let some things go instead of harvesting it, like a few of the carrots, lettuce and asparagus. The asparagus …
