Snow Geese reminder

We heard the snow geese flying over head today. They return in swirling, squawking flocks. That’s the signal to clean out the shed. They don’t touch down, but they bring us messages just the same.

Mr. Brown buys a BBQ

(and JA assembles it) This thing is enormous. It has the side burner extension and rotisserie and a 2nd cooking rack and…It’s natural gas, so we’ll have to figure out where to put it and how to get it connected.  We did plan for this when the house was put together, so an extension of the gas line does reach this back corner. But I...

Spring on the Pond

Four fat geese, and two ducks. It’s definitely spring when the ducks arrive. I hope they enjoy the curling rocks that we left out on the ice (and the shovels, and the scoreboard, and the corner posts…) Every year. When will we ever learn.

For Snookie

Snookie asked if a pdf could be stored and downloaded on a wordpress blog. I knew it could, but wanted to test the steps. There’s a Media menu in the admin section. ‘Add new’ to upload a file. Or if you have FTP log in to your website folder you could upload directly to there without entering WordPress. Embedding the link is available when you create your post entry and just as easy to do no matter...

Greg’s Fledgling and Farewell Post

Well the time has come to pack up my things and say goodbye for now to my refuge in the trees. Midge is on my lap purring up a storm while I type this. I