As the flu takes it's leave from our home I find myself with a new, albeit related affront to human kind. The sinus infection. My right ...

I found a bunch of these out in my rain soaked asparagus bed. They move like earthworms but are so small and white. I was thinking perhaps ...

For years I tried to find a mate to my special Iranian Apricot, SHAA-KAR PAREH. It isn't self-fruitful so it needed a mate and I had suc...

I have two sick children. So time is short. This morning I had the luxury of my husband home manning the elder child while I took the younge...

Very recently I posted about Roo, our second Gentleman Rooster as I like to call our guys. He liked to get into the garden and "man...

We made our way to the sea this week where my son found "love on the beach" and then beckoned me with complete tenderness and exci...

Today sure feels like spring. I have to remind myself the rain JUST stopped yesterday and there is more to come and it isn't time for tr...

Well goodness. So many of our first season hen-raised babies ended up to be roosters. Dang it. Over the past few weeks they started crowing...

And so it began. I spent a day (here and there, you know what I mean) with clementines. This week we were fortunate to come by some very ine...

It was so very lovely to wake up this morning to the live oaks lit up by a few rays of light. This morning was a morning for poking around a...

Last August I posted about our first surviving hen raised chick. If you click here you will see I referred to the chicken as a her, look a...

We don't get many good storms here. Perhaps one a year? This is a fantastic set of SIX! storms, one following another, which are hittin...

So I'm standing on top of our "ranch truck" (phrase used loosely) which is full of old fencing due for a good recycling run an...

We headed off today to meet with a group of moms and babes for a shared-food lunch and play date. I know one of the moms has a gluten and da...

Have you ever had fresh lemon grass before? There are so many uses for it, and here in our yard it does get several good solid frosts and k...