Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/14/26 5:45 49F (9.4C) Cloudy.  Calm, no rain. I think I will put some more corn in the ground this morning. If the wind doesn’t come up, I’ll burn the blackberry briars I cleared from around the rabbit hutch yesterday. Perhaps I  should go...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/13/26 6:00 50F (10C) Mostly cloudy,  windy, damp. A solitary spring storm to punctuate the drought. Trees sway and rattle in the gusts, spent blooms and small cones falling like last night’s rain. The ground is wet, with puddles here and there....
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/12/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Calm, partly cloudy. Clouds dot the blue sky like tufts of cottonwood dander drifting by. A robin buzzed me, so low I felt the breeze of his wings beating the air. Amy is home from California. Good morning.      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/11/26 6:00 43F (6C) A clear,  windless morning,  calm and quiet. The waning crescent moon floats ghost-like between the trees. A swallow glides by, white belly shining in the sun. The water casks have been soaking overnight. They still leak but are...
Morels for Breakfast

Morels for Breakfast

  Between the drought and fierce competition,  I  have not found many morels this season. But this morning I did have three mushrooms and about as many stalks of asparagus. I scalded the morels in water while I  chopped and fried some  bacon. When the bacon was...