This is the time of the year that I see many people on the side of the Interstate with their hoods open and a white handkerchief tied on their door handle. Their cars just died enroute…A chief cause of this is that you filled up with winter rated gasoline and it suddenly turned hot. The […]
Poor old declining Tom, he is so beat up, ragged, ears torn, claw marks on his neck, and an infected foot that is swollen up like a baseball. He limps along but keeps on trucking. He is my main medical patient. You have to take care of your people in your care and although barn […]
My first experience with multiple outdoor living cats – barn cats -was on my Uncle’s Farm. Every morning at least a dozen cats, perhaps more were piled against the kitchen door awaiting its opening. Once that door was opened they swarmed in and headed for the underside of the big wood fired kitchen cook stove. […]
Last October 2010 we discussed the weather pattern predictions for where we are right now at the beginning of February 2011. The Woolly Worm predictions so far have failed miserably and the Science corner was right in predicting a warm winter. However, February and early March are snow months.
Several years have now passed wherein I have obsessed about my obsessions and how to control them. I have come to the conclusion I will be forever bound into this process of PTSD. I believe that PTSD is a natural occurring phenomenon that is a normal process the brain uses to protect itself, and utilize […]
Over the past thirty years at this rural location the brush and trees have grown up. Along with the return to nature the predator population has increased: that includes coyotes, coy dogs, raccoons, bob cats, and assorted lesser creatures of the night that are inventive and determined to kill and eat your domestic animals-even if […]
I am not inviting any rabbits to dinner yet, so I have to clean houses and stuff hay in the nest boxes so they can keep warm. Yes, rabbits feel cold just like us, and need to get out of the wind and cold. My nest boxes, built into the hutch complex so that each […]
With modern comforts we seldom think about what it was like before…. As a history refresher, say 1930-1940’s here in Appalachia there was no, or few outdoor “privies” to deposit human waste. I had asked an old-old timer what did they do. He replied: “ We used foot boards”. It seems that the foot board […]
