2020-02-26 19:30
Cricket caught a vole the other day.
Voles are not mice, though they are somewhat related. Voles are more closely related to hamsters, which means they are cute. Really cute. They also seem… Read More
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This is a side road on my journey and includes updates on our travels down the "yellow brick road" of caring for my elderly parents and the joys of being an urban farmer.
2019-04-21 11:06
Twenty-six years ago, on April 20, 1993, we were getting ready to go to church for Easter Mass and asked Patrick, then 9 years old, to make sure the animals had been fed. He went to do his c… Read More
2018-09-17 04:54
"Oh, what a cute puppy!" my dad exclaimed. He loves animals, especially dogs, and loves it when we bring our wee fosters to visit with him. This time, however, it wasn't a puppy. Curly is ou… Read More
2018-06-29 19:49
New fosters! Cricket is a great little Mama dog and, as opposed to the Kaylee last year, she doesn't mind if Bennie plays with the pups. Anything that keeps them out of her fur is fine by he… Read More
2018-06-28 01:11
Well, we've got a couple of new nesting boxes made in hopes that the hens will not be able to reach their eggs. It's kind of hard to see, but those are paint roller pans in the boxes. The id… Read More
2018-06-01 06:09
We've managed to get our daily egg tally up to 5 or 6, only when we're able to check for eggs every 15 minutes or so, especially in the morning. One day, we brought in 8 eggs because I check… Read More
2018-05-28 23:10
It's time to work in the garden and there isn't a better way to spend the day... until it gets too hot, anyway. Chris has the main vegetable/flower garden in hand and it's looking better tha… Read More
2018-05-11 05:06
We were naive when it came to keeping animals, almost as naive as we were about having children. This didn't mean we thought it would be easy, we just knew we'd be up to the challenge. It wo… Read More
2018-04-30 02:29
Family Reunion! Two of Bennie's three brothers came to play yesterday and the pups had a marvelous time. They knew each other almost immediately, played, wrestled, came back and checked in w… Read More
2018-04-29 01:31
The wee beastie needed a foster home. Something about his photo made me email and say we'd take him. He's tiny. He's cute. He had hair that was begging for either some hair gel or a collar w… Read More
2018-01-01 00:29
Bert and Ernie joined us right after Halloween. Ernie went to his forever home just before Christmas and Bert, just after Christmas. They came to the rescue with mange, something I wasn't pr… Read More
2017-07-22 20:16
We are used to getting attached to the puppies we foster. It's inevitable, especially as we often have them for 3 months or morel We tell ourselves we can't keep all the puppies we fall in l… Read More
2017-07-11 05:12
We had seven dogs in our house on the 4th of July. Bennie, our own lovable chiweenie pup; Grover, the last of the last litter of orphaned pups we raised by hand; and Kaylee, the Mama poodle… Read More
2017-07-05 04:35
We bought chicks in the spring of 2010. We bought 14 chicks. They were all hens. Though we had a rooster for awhile, Napoleon, the bantam Mille fleur who ruled the roost with an iron claw me… Read More
2017-05-17 05:08
This is Grover, one of the three in the litter we are fostering. We've been amazed at how they jump and turn and twist around and run. They are incredibly athletic little guys. Thank you to… Read More
2017-04-29 05:03
I stayed with our grandchildren last night. It was our sleepover party at their house because their parents are both out of town. Everything went well with the children. They know their rout… Read More
2017-03-28 15:53
Dog and chicken diggin' #puppies #dogs #chihuahuas #pugs #chickens
A post shared by Emma (@capnstarwhale) on Mar 26, 2017 at 5:42pm PDT
Some photos and a video from Emma's collection on… Read More
2016-10-28 05:32
...at least this seems to be Bennie's impression. At seven months old, Bennie is the senior pup in the house and much wiser than those tiny bits of fluff and claws (and now teeth) we brought… Read More
2016-09-25 03:08
A funny thought went through my head a few weeks ago. Now that I know how to take care of newborn pups, wouldn't it be cool to do it again while Bennie is still young? Sounds weird, I know… Read More
2016-08-07 02:39
Our last little puppy was adopted today. Hammie, aka Alvin, was given a spot on the local news channel's "Pet of the Week" segment. We cleaned him up, trimmed his toenails, and dressed him i… Read More
2016-07-18 17:08
Two of the three puppies have been adopted. Hammie is still waiting for his forever home. I wanted to make a photo book as a birthday present to Emma to remember our journey. The link below… Read More
2016-06-24 18:30
It's what passes for a normal morning right now...
Chris is outside, watering the garden. I'm sleepily fixing my tea and getting breakfast ready for the pups. The four chihuahua puppies are… Read More
2016-05-15 04:46
It's almost unbelievable how quickly puppies grow and change. Just three short weeks ago, we were still bottle feeding the pups and holding our breath, hoping they would all stay healthy. We… Read More
2016-04-30 22:48
If we'd had any idea of what we were getting into, would we have been so enthusiastic about being foster surrogate chihuahua mamas?
There were 4 puppies abandoned and then rescued by Life i… Read More
2015-12-10 06:42
There's an old joke about an elderly Italian woman who was praying in church when a workman saw her and decided to play a trick on her. He hid behind the statue of Jesus and called out in a… Read More
2015-12-01 22:31
Stubborn:
1. having or showing dogged determination not to change one's attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good reasons to do so.
2. difficult to move, remove… Read More
2015-11-23 05:17
Last night I danced with my square dance club at the First Unitarian Society of Denver. There was a banner hanging in the hall that read, "Black Lives Matter". It had been hanging outside, b… Read More
2015-11-10 05:07
Several of my friends have become addicted to genealogy. They talk of days spent following clues on ancestry.com and suddenly looking up to find it's dark outside and they have forgotten to… Read More
2015-09-11 19:48
My lover speaks and says to me,
"Arise, my friend, my beautiful one, and come!" Song of Songs
We don't have to use candles. Even if the power goes off, there are flashli… Read More
2015-08-17 05:55
"Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit awhile, put down the needles, write awhile, then take up the sock again." Dorothy Day
There are 96 stitches o… Read More
2015-08-01 04:49
The goal is to
score the lowest number of points.
On the first
roll, the player will decide what they are going for (1s, 2s, full
house, etc) - though they can change their mind if the… Read More
2015-05-09 22:52
Now back to our regularly scheduled blog....
My original purpose in having this blog site was so I could write about our urban farm experiences as well as our experiences going down the yel… Read More
2015-04-20 17:14
Math was never my favorite subject and I wasn't very good at it. But, as an adult, I realized one day that math problems, at least the basics, were easier than any other problems in my life… Read More
2015-04-13 23:17
When I was young, my best friend was a little girl named Gina who was quite vocal about how she wished she was a boy. She even wadded up kleenexes and put the wad down the front of her pants… Read More
2015-01-13 23:28
There are a lot of strong female characters in books, TV, and film. They've always been there, but now I'm noticing them more. At least my daughter notices them and brings them to my attenti… Read More
2014-11-25 04:28
Even before going to see the movie, “Muffin Top – A Love Story”,
the issues of feminism, body image, sexuality, and a woman's right to
decide what to do with her body had b… Read More
2014-11-23 05:34
I
had a child in my kindergarten class who was having a wonderful time at nap, dancing around the kindergarten, making noises and
generally being such a distraction that no one could rest.&n&hell…Read More
2014-11-23 05:29
(Note - many people responded to the blog article which upset my daughter so much. Most bloggers responded within hours. It took me 5 days. I'd like to say it's because I think about things… Read More
2014-10-14 14:11
I'm sure those words were meant to keep me calm. I hadn't started to panic because I really wasn't sure what to panic about, but I'll have to admit, those words had caused a small alarm to g… Read More
2014-08-07 12:50
Guns are here to stay. They're out there and no one from the government is going to go door to door insisting that people give them up. The NRA is powerful and there are a lot of folks who a… Read More
2014-05-24 21:10
It's half past spring and time to be busy again. The winter was a lovely time to slow down and rest a little. I've learned I need to prioritize if I want to be active and not crashing from e… Read More
2013-11-30 21:41
The dog comes to greet us every morning before we get out of bed.
We're retired now. This reminds us we can sleep in later than our
daughter. We chuckle at the dog, watch her leave as Emma… Read More
2013-11-16 14:45
It's November, which is also called National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, which is also called, How to Torture Yourself by Writing Fifty Thousand Words in Thirty Days or HoToYoWriFiThoW… Read More
2013-10-17 02:44
Our family loves books. They can't help it. Our son, Patrick, has enough books to fill a small bookstore, all in his bedroom.. and the studio.. and the back kitchen. I think there's one in t… Read More
2013-07-11 03:28
Okay, first the good news. Josephine is back after an attempt to hatch eggs in our back shed. She was hiding very well, but something found the eggs when she dashed off to get a… Read More
2013-06-22 04:55
It had been a few days since we'd heard our bantam rooster, Napoleon, crow. Not that we were worried. Napoleon wasn't so loud and we knew he had taken to patrolling the area just… Read More
2013-05-18 20:19
Cool wet grass
leading down the hill
to the river.
Rice in the meadow,
trees swaying,
mountains still
like paintings behind the mist.
Vivid green
into blind eyes seep,
at least wh… Read More
2013-05-04 20:10
One
of my least favorite classes in high school was the required Essay
Composition course. As our school was very large, these required
courses were always full. There were somewhere betwe… Read More
2013-04-07 16:39
Whatever it was, I didn't do it.
Let's see, Lexus is now 5 months old. She's at a very busy time in her development, kind of like kindergarten children. Most of the time, she kn… Read More
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