Showing posts with label husband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label husband. Show all posts
Friday, April 14, 2023

King Kong Squash

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This gorgeous, enormous Blue Hubbard squash was given to me by a neighbor. I don’t know for sure if she grew it herself but she’s quite a ga...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Meat Math, Bovine Edition (GRAPHIC)

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Not a very good picture, but that is a 40 quart stockpot, with  substantially less than half of a freshly butchered steer’s head submerged ...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Goat Totin’ Man Totin’ Goats

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It recently came to my attention that there are still people out there reading my blog. Apparently, there’s a high school boy out there, a f...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Thankful for the Truth (Warning graphic photos)

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I love Thanksgiving, especially in the years, like this one, that I get to host. I enjoy the process of writing a menu, shopping for ingred...
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Papa Fix-it-All

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Tuesday a local, recommended appliance repair professional came out to our house and told us “you need a new fridge.” Homero told me he want...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Quince Años for Hope

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Hope will turn fifteen in October. Fifteen is a major, major birthday in Mexico - in the old days it was the traditional coming of age birth...
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Monday, May 28, 2018

Homero’s Great Big Birthday

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My husband is a fortunate man in many respects. Not the least of which, obviously, is that he’s married to me. But the luck that I am thinki...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Porksicles (Deep Bedding)

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After a prolonged, unseasonable warm spell in January, we experienced a brief, seasonable cold snap last week. Five or six days of tempe...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

O (Dead) Christmas Tree

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Christmas, the 800 pound gorilla of holidays,   is once again upon us. Every year, I envy my childless brother, who insouciantly flaunts on...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Fall Fermentation (Wine and Cider)

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Plum wine in the autumn sun  The satisfactions of living off of one's own land are many and varied. It is, for example, delightf...
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Swine Squared (Women's Work?)

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KWe have acquired two new pigs. To get a pig or not to get a pig, in any given year, is one of the larger farm-related decisions we make. Pi...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Cows and Compromise

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One of Homero's clients just traded him a newborn Jersey heifer for a complete engine rebuild on his truck. She's healthy and ador...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Bees and Heat

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The last few days have been uncharacteristically hot, to say the least. Records were broken. In fact, records were obliterated - the ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

One Husband, Many Heads (Graphic Pictures)

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the giant fish I am not a squeamish eater. I like liver, and I put the giblets in my gravy. Tacos de lengua are alright with me. As com...
Friday, November 13, 2015

The Bog of Eternal Stench, The Dog from Hell, and Bad Knees

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Once again it is November, number one on the list of months I wish I could fast-forward through, closely followed by February. Torrential ra...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Computer Woes and Puppy Happiness

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There are all sorts of things I'd like to write about, but I am stymied by my inability to learn the new operating system my husband dow...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Petrichor (Scent and Weakness)

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They say it is finally going to rain this weekend. Actually, they said the rain would start last night - and a little bit of rain did fall; ...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Pig and Cow (Major Meat)

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Long summer evenings and good weather have us out in the yard until late in the day. I haven't mowed the back yard in a few weeks; ...