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Category Archives: Just life
The Yule Shindig: pt. 2
Part Two: the party. As I have explained, probably once a year for the last almost twenty years I’ve been tell you these tales, this is a very old party. The same people have been coming to it since the … Continue reading
The Yule Shindig: pt.1
Dec 20 How to get ready for a party. This is pretty much the only party you ever have, and it’s at Christmas, so you have plenty of leisure time to get ready. No pressure. 1. First think to yourself, … Continue reading
A bit of a braid
First of all – is anybody else having problems with the header not popping in, or with comments disappearing? Second: I believe that I may have lost about an inch or so on my waist, just high stepping it over … Continue reading
Posted in Horses, Images, Minutiae, The outside world
Tagged gates, knit, polar bear, prints, puppies, snow
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Interlude – or where your steak comes from
First thing in the morning: let the tide of puppies out of their crate. Allow yourself to be carried along with the rolling surge: down the hall to tumble down the stairs, finally pooling – whirling around and around at … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, Epiphanies and Meditations, Horses, Just life, The outside world
Tagged cows, Horses, meat, puppies
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Freezing
Holy cats. I thought I had lost a finger to frost bite this morning. Six degrees in the barn, horses covered with frost, tiny icicles hanging in their hair like silver tips at the end of corn rows. I was … Continue reading
First Snow and Other Moments
~Don’t miss the tiny giveaway at the bottom of this link~ It snowed on Saturday, I think it was. During the night. And when the puppies got up at six, as they almost always do, they raced down the stairs … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, dogs, Family, Images, Minutiae, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged Chaz, check, Christmas, First snow, fixing things, G, house, puppies
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Oh—and incidentally . . .
Okay, so I went by the post office the other day and waited in a HUGE long line at a counter that had six registers and only one human behind it. We joked around, the other waiters and I, dark … Continue reading
Posted in Excuses, Images, Just life, Minutiae, Seasons
Tagged domestic chaos, healthcare, Horses, postal service, puppies, stars
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Gifted Corn
You remember this corn shock, yes? The one I bought from Bro. Carter out on 6th South? He always makes sure he’s got at least one purple corn stalk in each one of these bunches, and I love that about … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Images, Just life, Seasons
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Treasure Gathering
One of my more profound failures as a female concerns shopping: I don’t like it. Put me in a mall and I mostly want to go home. Especially if it’s pants we’re shopping for. I tend to buy my clothes … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, Images, Just life, Making Things, Pics of Made Things, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged artists, craft, fall, shopping
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Animal Husbandry
There are times, as you go around owning animals, when you end up with a sick horse. This is a sick horse. Jedda is recovering here from “pigeon fever,” named not because you get it from pigeons but because when you … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, Family, Images, Seasons, The outside world
Tagged Autumn, Me, moose, puppies, sick horse, sliding, syringe
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