Firesign Farm

Frost nailed the blossoms on our sweet cherry tree this Spring, so no black cherries for us this year. We have a standard-size self-pollinat...

Risa, blogger at Stony Run Farm , posted her friend's Homage to Lizards poem in comments for the House Lizards post below - I like the i...

The cat brought in another live lizard a couple of days ago. I heard him mumbly-meowing in the living room, went to see what was the matter,...

I was back in Colorado earlier this year, visiting my mom. She was going through the basement, garage, and closets, getting things together ...

I work in the garden; I volunteer in my community; I get out and about in the area walking and hiking. I take photos and write blog entries ...

Eleven-thirty a.m. and the rain drove me inside. I was out trying to get my "fruiting" garden plants set in - my tomatoes, peppers...

Tweedit, our guinea hen, has been patiently setting on her nest out front since the middle of April. It's way past time for them to have...

After spending a week visiting Mom in Colorado, without computer access, I got back with one day to myself. I spent Friday doing laundry, a ...

Miss me? I've missed all of you. I just spent a week in Denver visiting my Mom. She doesn't (didn't, anyway) have internet acces...

I'd just hung the big laundry items out on the clothesline, and came back in to get the little collapsible rack to set out on the patio ...

I garden in a pretty harsh climate - it can freeze any time until early June, and then the daytime temperatures can be up in the 90's ov...

I've had so many different things going on lately, I feel like every day is just something more to cross off my list of things I have to...

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...

I spent the better part of today working a garage sale. A little over a week ago, my Soroptimist Club decided to put one together as a fundr...

Now you see them: Now you don't: We get the fun of real egg hunts around here. Last week (April 10th) Tweedit, one of our guinea hens, s...

Now that that Spring is peeping 'round the corner, I've been busy out and about. This means more things than ever to post about, and...

I've been writing about our little Missy chicken - a Brown Leghorn that was given to us at least 10 years ago that just died a couple o...

Just a quick update before I turn everything off for Earth Hour . Nevada is notoriously slow to get on any bandwagon, but amazingly enough, ...

At least 10 - 12 years ago (maybe more?), one of Aries' co-workers asked if we'd like a chicken. A little Brown Leghorn hen had flow...

My Soroptimist Club made me cry yesterday. Our Foundation Committee put together a presentation to honor this quarter's high school Girl...