In the interest of fairness, my post about a typical day needs to be balanced by a view of the “other” kind of day. The kind of day that goes on more often than anyone admits or likes. It started simply enough, with a head start on the day to do some mowing. Well, not
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One of the most common questions I get about living at Two Mile Ranch is, “do you ever get lonely?” I’ve written Five Things You Should Know about Living in Solitude earlier on this site.
It’s a fair question. The idea of living alone in less than 700 ft. is a far cry from typical. Readers
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The Thursday New York Times article by Michael Moss raises interesting questions about food safety, especially as more and more foods are manufactured using multiple ingredients. Moss shares:
Increasingly, the corporations that supply Americans with processed foods are unable to guarantee the safety of their ingredients. In this case, ConAgra could not pinpoint which of the
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Time to enjoy the gifts of a spring rain. The ponds are pushing their edges after a full day of rain. The forecast begins to clear for next week, and until then, there is time to enjoy a spring shower and the images it leaves behind.
Scaling back is the new black.
According to the National Association of Home Builders, houses started in the third quarter of 2008 averaged 2,438 square feet, down from 2,629 feet in the previous quarter. That’s a whole extra room — poof!
via Cut your square footage in half – MSN Real Estate.
Last year’s July 4th weekend project with my son was the building the pheasant fly pen, a 45 x 25 net enclosed space for the pheasants to grow out from 6 weeks to about 18 weeks. It is covered with netting and has about 6 – 7 feet of head room
Along the east, long side,
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Flowers being to bloom this month, other names for this moon include the corn planing moon, or the milk moon. The calendar may say the full moon is May 9, but it s fullest today, May 8, around 9 PM Central.
