Firesign Farm

My crocus and earliest daffodils are up and blooming. Fall-planted garlic and shallots are up and growing in the garden, and just received a...

It's that time of year. Boris, our German Shorthair pound hound, has been shedding quite a bit (and smelling rather doggy too). This mor...

I love being in the outdoors, and camping (speaking of camping, for my most recent turn to post on the Simple Green Frugal Co-op , I wrote a...

Sometimes, doing crazy things makes me feel most alive. I went to two outdoor parties this weekend, and snowflakes were swirling on both. No...

I work on-call in the tourism industry. Right now, with the economy the way it is, corporate tourism is way down so I haven't been worki...

It's been more than 30 years since I got to see Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Many of my earlier adventures were cabin-fever relievers - ex...

After the Labor Day weekend, lots of our summer tourists head back home to get the kids back in school, not to be seen again until Christmas...

We took off for a couple of days to visit some of Aries' relatives near Sacramento. This trip, we took Highway 50 over the Sierras. Firs...

It was a bit chilly but the sun was shining, so I got out for a walk with a couple of friends yesterday. We met on the edge of a subdivision...

It's a grey day, and looks like it's snowing in the Sierras already. But the storms hadn't come over the mountains yet this morn...

Joy, from Perth, Australia, wrote that her youngest son and grandson, both in their 20's, were coming this way and asked what there was ...

I love salmon. When I get the chance to go out to dinner at a really nice place, odds are I'll order the salmon. Even though I've ne...

Aries is on vacation for two weeks. He always takes vacation time in October, ever since our honeymoon (it was our 19th anniversary, earlier...