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These late beets would have made it to the table by now if we'd had any rain.  This was an experiment anyhow, and it continues.  Will th...

Why do they call them "red-bellied woodpeckers" when their bellies aren't red? There's a female cardinal at the feeder ...

I think that must be a female cardinal on the left, dining peacefully with a couple of goldfinches. The goldfinches made themselves scarce f...

Until we moved back here in the pasture, I wasn't much of one to notice birds, unless they were brightly-colored. Seeing gray birds at ...

Looking out my computer room window, I saw black birds (probably starlilngs) totally taking over our pasture. They spent about ten minutes ...

The forecast is for a low of 34 tonight and 30… possibly 27… for tomorrow night. The bell pepper plants are loaded with peppers that will ...

Are any of my readers bird-wise? Cliff and I have racked our brains and can't figure out what it might be... dark gray back with white ...

In the garden... There are blooms on the bush beans. Peppers on the pepper plants. Hundreds of tomatoes on the vines. Yesterday we did indee...

Yesterday Cliff and I made what turned out to be, for him, an ill-fated trip to the city. He had received a Harbor Freight circular in the ...

There just hasn't been much interesting activity around here worth blogging about. The weather outside is uncomfortably hot. I've ...

Last summer I discovered the joy to be found watching hummingbirds. Now I'm enjoying goldfinches (Daddy used to call them "wild can...

A while ago I looked out the window next to my computer and saw four goldfinches perched on a post that holds a hummingbird feeder. Excited...

This is an aerial view of our property, before we got the mobile home. (Don't you just love Google Earth?) The highest spot on our prop...