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January 07, 2010 12:16 PM EST --
It’s a snow day in Birdland. We woke to a blue tinted world and a 4 inch cap of snow on every surface and discovered that schools were closed. The snow was still falling gently, but by nine . . .
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January 01, 2010 12:24 AM EST --
We’ve had a cold snap in Birdland, which supplied momentum for getting an important job done. A while back a windstorm just a hair shy of a tornado took out the door to the aviary and a . . .
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December 29, 2009 09:40 AM EST --
It’s wet in Birdland, and if only I had remembered to bring in some kindling last night, I wouldn’t be trying to light a fire with these soggy sticks I brought in this morning after . . .
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December 29, 2009 09:20 AM EST --
In Birdland the puddles have crusted over and the grass crunches with the frost. We’ve had a cold snap, but that gives me an excuse for a fire in the woodstove. Of course all the extra . . .
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December 29, 2009 09:08 AM EST --
Is it the Winter that brings out the curmudgeon in me? I am now officially an old lady. Last week, even before the frigid front came barreling from the West, I was walking across the Quad on my . . .
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December 03, 2009 01:14 PM EST --
We had a little window of sunshine between huge masses of clouds carrying suitcases of misty rain and gloomy skies. It was sun enough for me to hang two loads of laundry, and for Jim and Sean . . .
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November 19, 2009 12:03 PM EST --
We've had a little frost in Birdland, but it's sunny and warming up today. Nothing is left in the garden but arugula, a lovely addition to my daily salad. Earlier this week my friend, Suzanne . . .
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November 19, 2009 10:50 AM EST --
It’s raining in Birdland as if it would never end. The gray sky stretches from East to West. Water flows down the grass waterway and across the road without stopping. The retaining basin . . .
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November 05, 2009 02:40 PM EST --
In Birdland we finally got some sun, and they've harvested corn in the west end of the farm. The time change brings on an early evening, but it's been warm and sunny in the afternoons and I spend . . .
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October 29, 2009 12:24 PM EDT --
In Birdland we have one foot in Autumn, the other reluctantly stepping out of Summer. The abundant rain keeps the grass green, and the corn in the fields, but the leaves are turning yellow, filtering . . .
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October 22, 2009 12:52 PM EDT --
It has warmed up some in Birdland, and dried out enough for the harvest to begin. The corn is the color of my dog, Isis, but it's the beans they're cutting now, all day and into the evening, the headlights . . .
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October 18, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
Treating myself like Gold means …
Making the bed in the morning.
Doing exercises every day.
Eating healthy foods.
Treating . . .
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October 15, 2009 09:13 AM EDT --
So much rain in Birdland, I wonder when they will be able to bring in the corn. A late sunrise and over cast skies make for dark mornings and shadowy chicken duties. It's not that I'm wishing . . .
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October 08, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
I was hoping to spend my afternoon digging day lilies to transplant along the new path to the barn. The path is only imaginary still, but it's vivid in my mind. My experimental plan to mow only . . .
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October 01, 2009 11:38 PM EDT --
It's chilly in Birdland, and gets dark early, and the light comes late in the morning. Almost time to plasticize the coops. The quince is turning golden on the little tree, each heavy fruit weighing . . .
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September 24, 2009 10:46 PM EDT --
It's been gloomy in Birdland, with overcast skies and much needed rain. About a week ago our bean fields were so yellow they could have been a field of chrysanthemums. Now they are fading out . . .
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September 17, 2009 01:49 PM EDT --
The curtain is coming down on summer. Each morning it's a little darker when I wake up, the light illuminating my morning chicken chores is a little more muted. In another month I'll need a flashlight . . .
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September 11, 2009 12:38 AM EDT --
In Birdland mornings are foggy. Isis comes in from her run with beads of dew on her coat. My dog had a su mmer cut (which the groomer loosely interpreted as a shave) about six weeks ago, and her . . .
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September 10, 2009 10:29 PM EDT --
When I was 13 I stopped eating meat. I went all "Fern and Wilber" and "where's-Papa-going-with-that-axe?" I didn't eat meat for one very simple reason: I didn't want to harm animals. I had seen Bambi. . . .
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August 27, 2009 11:48 PM EDT --
It is the season of the yellow butterflies, when early mornings are chilly, but by noon we're looking for a shade tree. The butterflies gather at the edges of puddles and then dance in tumbling . . .
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