Firesign Farm

We have a busy calendar - lots of things to do as our summer continues. Some of it revolves around a little toy in our garage - a 1972 Honda...

Muscle Powered , a local pedestrian and bicycle advocacy group I'm active in, is staffing a bicycle valet at our downtown Farmers Market...

Friday evening, 6 p.m. We're both tired, and we're hungry. Aries brought home some fish fillets, so I put them over a bed of chopped...

After a couple of days outside in the shade, it was time to get my garlic harvest into shape to store. Usually, when garlic is almost ready ...

I dug my garlic last night. It's a bit earlier than usual, and it never did fall over like it usually does when it's getting ready t...

Summer's finally here, and daytime temps are reaching up towards the 90's. But high desert nights cool off down in the 40's in J...

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...