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Zany zesty zigzag
Remember rick-rack? The trim that your mom sewed on curtains and aprons and around the hem of your little-girl dresses? Well, I’m crazy for it. I’ve been changed by living in Mexico where colorful embellishment is without restraint, in fact it is celebrated all the way to the grave where the cemeteries are filled with…
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Learning from a chick…
So many times when working in nature I stumble over something that speaks to me on a soul-level. One of the benefits of working alone is that the job at hand has your full attention and simultaneously you have your thoughts. The work shows me things and engages me and sometimes there’s a memorable conversation.…
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Happy people – happy dogs…
Today was the final day of our spay and neuter clinic. We treated 95 dogs and cats these last 4 days! That’s nearly 200 animals in 8 days. These were a few of our “clients”.
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Dog tired…
This week was extra busy because in addition to my daily farm chores I volunteered at a spay and neuter clinic for dogs and cats in San Blas. We have a problem in Mexico with too many uncared for animals on the streets so the gringo community got together to provide free veterinarian clinics. We…
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Cottonballs with legs
Hello Junko, here are more stories about chickens and such. I had a quiet day with the chickens, neglecting my other duties. I worked on finishing the baby pen. The little chicks look like black and white cotton-balls with toothpicks for legs. Short toothpicks. The babies are very curious and get into every nook and…
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The Hawk Came Back
The hawk came back It got one hen in the morning. We found the hen dead inside the coop and at first we weren’t sure what had happened. In the evening I went back to close the chickens in for the night and all the chickens were outside the coop staring at it. It reminded…
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Now Renting
I finished the new chicken house and the tenants are all moved in. If I were still a bachelor I’d be sleeping in the house with them. It’s really cozy. I also wired in some branches so they’d have more places to perch. Tomorrow I’ll put in another ladder. Some of the chickens tend to…
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chicken condos
Last Monday we got home after dark and I headed out back to put the chickens to bed. I had them all tucked in and was headed for bed myself when I heard a lonesome “peep peep peep”, I’d counted the babies and they were all in their pen so I couldn’t figure out what…
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Fashion for farmwomen…
I just found 6 mud cocoons stuck to my apron. Two were empty. I was curious what kind of creature was inside and found that each one contained a folded-up spider. I had noticed two in the kitchen yesterday and they were as large as silver dollars. Now I know from whence they came. This…
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Coo-coo for cocos…
Coconuts are a mainstay of our diet. Wally planted coconuts about 16 years ago and we recently planted more. Many people think that coconut milk is the fluid inside the coconut but actually it is a milk made from the meat of the nut and it is blended with water into a rich, white milk…