Category: Journal

  • Flirted with you all my life…

    I’m overwhelmed by guilt, sadness and depression today.  I try to be a good person but sometimes I feel like I’m pretending to be something I’m not. Sadie got an armadillo last night and I let her kill it.  The poor animal was in a bad way by the time I pulled the dog off…

  • Bantam Chick Update

    The bantam chick is dead.  A snake got into the coop.  It wasn’t Big Black rat snake; he’s too big to have gotten in.  I suspect it was the smallish snake I saw by the coop the other night. That makes it 2 for 2.  Both chicks have lived about a week then died.

  • Farm Life — Aug 12

    The other day the guineas got out of their pen.  There were 6 that night.  The next morning there were 3. I thought it was because the door between the run and the yard was closed. Maybe that’s why they couldn’t find their way back into the coop?  So I started to leave it open.…

  • Hawks (13.0.1.12.10)

    For the past couple of weeks I’ve been hearing hawks calling. I can hear them even when I’m inside, so they have to be close. It’s unusual that I’m hearing them every single day. The other day I came home from running errands and saw a couple of hawks fly off from the trees in my front yard.…

  • Thoughts on Ibsen

    It’s like Ibsen’s personality was split and shared among the 3 dogs I currently have. Scotty has Ibsen’s loyalty. Sadie has Ibsen’s playfulness and friendliness. Jasmine has Ibsen’s companion-ness.

  • Requiem for Ibsen (12.19.17.0.17)

    I buried my dog Ibsen today. He died yesterday. I had the vet come to the house to euthanize him. They were an hour late. When the tech called, she said it was because of an emergency. I hope everything turned out alright for that emergency visit. It gave me another hour to spend with…