Oh, the stories we tell.

Winters now are never as bad as the winter’s of our grandparent’s youth, when they walked to school — up hill, both ways — in cardboard shoes — and they liked it!

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
A newspaper man in 1897 wrote those lines in what became one of the most reprinted editorials in the history of print. Francis Pharcellus Church, answered an 8 year old girl who wrote him asking:
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old.
“Some of my little friends say there is no
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I’m packing and organizing for some media work at Farm Aid in St. Louis tomorrow.  I’ve also been working on fall projects and tonight we’re expecting a low in the mid 30’s.  Fall is quickly arriving.  For a brief post, I’m sharing a photo of the daily egg harvest.

I don’t assign human feelings to animals.
Despite the Disney love affair with anthropomorphism, and my personal respect of the work of Dick King Smith, (The Water Horse and Babe, The Gallant Pig)  animals are animals and humans are humans.  If anything, humans are more likely to affect animal traits than vice-versa. That said, I do
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Since I sold my 1989 Ford pickup (the title read “Brown” for the color, but each sheet metal panel was a different shade of red), I’ve been looking for a “thousand dollar pickup” for Two Mile.  I wanted 4 wheel drive because the few times I would need it, I would NEED it.  I casually
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No, I don’t expect you to believe it either, but it happened.
The ducks are laying eggs.  In their duck house, they have scooped out a little nest in the straw, but most days, they lay eggs on the fence line between the duck pen and the pheasant pen.  Ducks do what ducks do.  There’s no
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There are things we do because they are the right thing to do.  This week, I have two examples.
My physical neighbors about a mile down the road have been good to me.  I met them the first time I high centered my tractor while bush hogging the front of the property.  I drove down the
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I shared the discovery of the first pheasant egg, and Sunday, I found the first duck egg.  It was broken and was on the wood platform the duck swimming pool rests on.
Whether the duck egg broke on the wood, was stepped on by one of the ducks, or had a soft shell due to it
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The Peabody Hotel in Memphis parades a pair of ducks through the lobby every afternoon.  Every 6 months or so, they get new ducks.  Big whup!
The 4 black cayuga ducks of Two Mile Ranch can get on and off the little pond by themselves.  Getting to the pond, has never been a problem, getting OFF
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I don’t know where this is going to end up.

I first thought the ducks, once grown, would live on the pond. My concern about possible predators and the ducks becoming midnight snacks for coyotes had me thinking of a floating duck house. Then the option of building or perhaps buying a dog house kit — and starting the ducks in the pen, and moving them to the pond.