*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Sibyl and Bartholomew are doing fine….. We are in the process of repairing and rebuilding the back paddock…which will be their home….. Not to dwell on the obvious….. But Hurricane Milton did leave his “mark” on us…and we are still weeding and wading our way clear of all the extra “To Do’s” that he left for us to fix and clean up….. Now that all of the stacks of wood/brush/& logs have been…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* He came back….. Mister Doctor Brigid and Patience (his tractor) came back again…and we didn’t even ask them to….. …..and the phenomenal CSBT (Claw-Scoop-Bucket Thingie) also came along for the ride….. We’ve decided that Mister Doctor Brigid needs an alias…and we decided to call him “Padraig”….. Don’t you think it’s got a nice ring to it?….. Well…I was happy with ALL the work that Padraig & Patience had already accomplished last week….. …..but…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Our land stewardship and custodial responsibilities have been difficult these past few years….. There’s been so much to do…(post Hurricane Milton)…so many various stages of clean up…and all of them requiring machinery that we do not own…(yet)….. I’ve decided that a cherry picker is now Number #1 on my Christmas Wish List…(Santa are you listening?)….. Since Milton…there have been a lot of dead trees and fallen trees and trees “threatening” to fall…which have…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s hard to tell one opossum from another opossum….. But I think this is a different one…because he (or she) was bigger…his fur was healthier and smoother…and there wasn’t a hitch in his get-along….. Regardless…the other night…I was called out of my bed and into action to protect my poultry…(yet again)….. There is definitely a repeat pattern here…it always at night…after everyone has gone to bed…and I’m always in my underwear or my…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’ve recently had our fair share of very cold weather….. I’ve willingly been burning everything that I can lay my hands on in our den fireplace….. Maple…oak…mulberry…palmetto…cypress…palm (that last one is not a good choice)….. I’m not totally sated as a latent (but controlled) pyromaniac…I’m not sure that’s even possible….. My tiny chainsaw is still rev’ing away….. I’m scaling the “Tower O’ Firewood” in the front yard….. …..(probably not the safest of choices)…but…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I spotted this tiny little attempt at a sapling when I was setting up for our recent Winter Solstice celebration….. It was growing from the base of what remains of the beautiful old oak tree…the one we had to take down right after Hurricane Milton….. If you recall…Milton’s winds caused a big growing house-threatening crack at the base of the twin trucks of the huge tree….. I absolutely hated taking down that old…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Of course we did a bonfire….. Of course we semi-toasted our front sides while freezing off our backsides….. I don’t know what it is about Florida’s damp cold…that seeps in and goes straight to your bones…and leaves you totally chilled & shivering for hours afterwards….. …..even with mittens…and hats…and blankets…and coats….. Thanks to Hurricane Milton (from last year)…we still have wood to burn…Lord Knows!…we still have lots and lots of wood to burn……..
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* After having watched the neighbors recent late night fireball of a bonfire…I’ve decided…I’m not going to burn any of our remaining piles of wood that are still scattered around our property after last year’s Hurricane Season….. I decided there’s another option rather than the risk of more fires…it just too dry right now….. The meteorologist just said that compared to last year rainfall…we are 22″ less than last year…(granted we were in the…
**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In any given pasture…there are gates….. There’s a need for gates…at least one gate….. The majority of a pasture’s fence line is made up of…well…fencing….. Pasture fencing is made to contain animals…..(hence…rolled wire fencing is called livestock fencing)….. Gates are meant for ingress and/or egress of people…and critters….. What I’ve noticed over the years is that gates have a secret magnetism all their own….. …..even though there’s far more fencing material that makes…
*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Yes Folks…..the official start of the 2025 Hurricane Season begins in two days….. It starts all over again on June 1st….. Yes it does…and so soon….. …..Woot…Woot….. …..(that was meant as extreme sarcasm…just in case you were wondering)….. No–I’m not excited about its arrival…No–I’m not celebrating it’s start….. …..I’m bilious….. I’m gun-shy about this coming season…I think that’s understandable….. I just can’t muster any puffed-chest bravado….. I don’t want it to start…again….. I…