Firesign Farm

I love spinach salad (especially with this dressing ) but our growing season for spinach can be problematic. High-desert spring weather can ...

Thinking of the famous war poem, In Flanders Field , I took this picture of red poppies in bloom, with my flags flying from my deck railing ...

I'm home again, after a very emotional week in Colorado. My mom and two sisters had taken care of a lot of the arrangements before my tw...

I trusted my gut: saying to myself that I would run for office made me feel calm inside, saying I wouldn't just made me feel anxious. So...

A couple of months ago, I wrote about something outside frightening my cat, Albert , so badly that he wouldn't leave the house for weeks...

This is just a quick little catch-up post. The six baby chicks have doubled in size, with wing and tail feathers over bodies and heads of ba...

Sorry I've been a bit MIA here lately - I took for a few days to visit my sister in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's always so nice ...

Missy, a little brown leghorn we took in years ago, would hide a nest each year, then disappear and three weeks later, return with a new clu...

The weather is warming up, the garden and rest of the yard are calling my name, Ciara has tagged me for a meme that I want to answer, and R...

I grew up in Denver, Colorado, the mile-high city. One of our standard junior high science class experiments was measuring the temperature o...

Well, that cold front definitely came through. Night before last, it snowed a bit and temps went down to 27º. The fruit trees were looking p...

I mean laundry, not loitering. Project Laundry List designates April 19th as our National Hanging Out Day, to draw attention to both energ...

Friday night - I wanted pizza. Making your own pizza crust takes a couple of hours of advance planning, to give the dough time to rise, but ...

Nice, quiet day today. I got out for a walk with Boris, our pound hound, this morning. We checked out the new strip mall under construction ...

I eat meat, but can just as easily do without it. I think of meat as a condiment to a meal - it adds flavor but it's not the main attrac...

It looks like I'm starting to garner some readers here at Firesign Farm, and I like looking back at the blogs from people that comment o...

It's downright hot today. I had Aries put the shade up outside the big east-facing window this morning, so the living room is now a comf...

"April is the cruellest month," said T.S. Eliot. That sure holds true for trying to grow fruit around here. The weather right now ...

This is another Grammaw-inspired lesson. She never really sat down and showed me how to patch the knees of my blue jeans, but I was quite th...

It's turning out to be quite the year for us. First the 25-year old waterbed, then the 20-year old microwave, and now the 15-year old te...