Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/23/26 6:45 42F (5.5C)  A hint of a breeze stirs the leaves beneath a blue sky delicately laced with clouds. Birds are singing,  dashing and gliding between the trees. Up on Willow Flat an orchard sprayer drones. Dogs are barking. The sun yawns and...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/21/26 6:30 51F (10.5C) Faint breeze, partly cloudy with rain predicted for later today. The baby chicks are in feathers and growing fast, the rabbits are putting on weight. I got some seeds in the ground yesterday,  corn and pumpkin. We have starts...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

4/21/26 65F Calm, overcast and humid. It sprinkled a little this morning,  but not enough to prevent me from mowing. After lunch I returned the keg. Since I was in the neighborhood, I dropped by the range to burn up some black powder. While there, some hungry deer...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/20/26 7:00 49F (9.4C) Windless, overcast. It is a dull, gray morning. A dove coos monotonously. The birds seem to bicker, their low, trilling chatter discordant and without melody. Even Walter’s barking lacks enthusiasm. Good morning?  ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/19/26 6:30 45F (7.2C) Calm, temperate, mostly cloudy. Thin, grey clouds shift above me. Song birds trill. A duck flys low overhead. Somewhere  a woodpecker is tapping. A dove coos. A turkey calls nearby. A shotgun blast. Good morning.    ...