George made the paper

From the story about the fair in this week’s local paper: The Bench Show, coordinated by Irene Knull, displayed an astonishing collection of items in many categories….One of this reporter’s favourites was the large and wonderful photographic display. The submissions by Vicki Pyle and George Brown were not the only fabulous entries, but definitely some wonderful, artistic ones! Yes, generally, we...

Millet Fair 2011

George won more first place ribbons than i did, but I received more ribbons and more prize money. George says that makes him Curtis Granderson and I am Ichiro. That’s OK I guess. I’m a big Ichiro fan. I was disappointed that my asters only came in second, the judges comments tell me I removed too much foliage from the the stem, and that is not correct for competition. I’m positive I read that I...

A new hatching

The hell with the tomatoes and the corn and the flowers, hit me with a hard frost NOW. I could see the mosquito swarms over the front lawn, and I was on the other side of the room – not even near the window. The dragonflies are happy and the swallows are swooping, but the horses are on their own tonight, I’m not going out there to bring them in. Maybe the mosquitoes have carried them off...

The silver lining

I wouldn’t have found the berries are ready for at least another week if it weren’t for those dastardly horses. The later season berries usually taste better than the early ones but nothing tastes better than the first. And when they are sunshiney warm…(insert homer simpson drooling over food sound...

Where are we now?

Running up and down the highway apparently. In front of cars even. Frack!

Bunny spam

This comment made it through the initial spam filter on “Hopping Cauliflower” Comment: Its about time smooene wrote about this. It cracks me up. Not only because they figure this is generic enough that they can use a robot to place it everywhere it finds a wordpress comment block. Not only because it makes me giggle to pretend for a moment that someone honestly thought it was ‘about time’ the...

Hopping cauliflower

Aparently rabbits much prefer cauliflower plants over bok choi, mustard greens and even lettuce. They have nibbled leek tops too but the caulis are gone, baby, gone. What kind of dog lets rabbits in the garden? Shame, Mulder. Even an old dog should be able to scare a bunny.

Hunting Greeblies

My family will have to explain what the greeblies were – the water creatures that haunted Stoco Lake outside of Tweed, Ontario in the late evenings. Out here we just have a pair of Grebes. It’s nice to have Lake McRae back again, our humble slough that disappeared in the drought. And the first time in at least three years to be able to get the...

Pelicans

The pelicans have returmed to Coal Lake. So cool

KMU

Play the licence plate game over on the Compound site.