Author: Maisy

  • Forecast via the big “V” In the Sky

    I haven’t been out and about a lot lately, so I’m not saying this is the first sighting, just MY first sighting: Two separate V-formations of geese heading NORTH! Yesterday, Monday, February 24 right before sunset. That’s a good sign of Spring. The sightings were in Gwinnett County, GA, which is just NE of Atlanta.…

  • Warmer temperatures, and laying, right around the corner

    The weather [weather.com] is forecasting warmer temperatures for the next few nights than they were last week. That means that we won’t be below freezing at all, if it turns out that way. That’s good news for hens and plants. The Weeping Willow tree is putting out it’s greenery, and a few other trees are…

  • I’m pleased to announce …

    I am now hosting Howard King’s “A Christian Agrarian Critique of Technological Society”. It’s a fantastic look at modern society through the Christian Agrarian lense, which is a Biblical look at the whole enchilada. Click here for “A Christian Agrarian Critique of Technological Society”. It’s worth reading. If you are interested in agrarian things or…

  • Pussy Willows ready to burst forth!

    I’ve been watching the Pussy Willow bush the last couple of weeks, and finally today, it’s ready. Several small covers have split and are showing the velvety gray beneath … it won’t be long now before the whole bush is a lovely wash of gray velvet! Spring is building, the great cachophony isn’t here yet,…

  • Here’s a nice picture with added graphics

    This was taken, as stated on the picture, somewhere around April 2002. Strider and Dixie are brother and sister, adopted in December 2001 when they were about 7 months old. Strider is the only male cat in the house, and definitely the King. He’s my big old lover too. A big ol’ hunk o’ cat.…

  • Happy Valentine’s Day!

    I created a desktop for Frank, and have it on my computer for the “holiday” too. I decided to share it with whomever else would like it as well. Here it is: Pick the one right for your monitor resolution: 800 x 600 56kb 1024 x 768 82kb 1280 x 1024 101kb 1600 x 1200…

  • A big boy

    News I forgot to put down is: Asa is potty-learned! He’s been there for over a week now, and is just now a month shy of being 2 1/2 years old. Way to go Asa! Now there are no more diapers to be changed. I’ll put them away until they are needed, hopefully, again.

  • They are here!

    We got the hens tonight. They are sweet looking. Leghorns, ten of them. They are in the pen, with the traveling dog kennel in the pen with them, the kennel is what they came home with us in. We gave them water and mash, and opened the door. One brave soul ventured forth rather quickly,…

  • A First for us — chickens

    Last evening Frank and I banged out three and a half sides for our new chicken pen. The night before that we did the first half of one, and figured out what we were going to build, the design of it, that is. This is our first farming structure! We used lumber from our house,…

  • Winter, spring-longings, and Winter again

    It’s been a bit warmer for a few days, into the 50’s then the low 60’s one day, and then the high 40’s today. Nights have been above freezing. Now tonight it’s going to get much colder, into the low 20’s, and tomorrow looks to be a COLD day, and the night in the one…

  • Cold temperatures, but Mild Winter so far

    It’s cold tonight, supposed to be around 15 degrees F. That’s the coldest of the season. That means a mild Winter. No snow or ice storms as yet. We did have flurries this morning, but very light and not for very long. It rained last night, and the temperature was about 36 to 34 degrees,…

  • Web authoring

    I’m working on our church’s web site. Once a new hosting site is found I’ll be updating the site with my pages. I code by hand, and it’s a task I enjoy. I’ll put a preview link here later, when I have some more content on my site. I’m loading on this site it to…

  • The Two Towers

    We’re in Michigan, leaving on Friday. Last night, opening day, we went and saw The Two Towers (Tolkien movie – The Lord of the Rings, book/movie 2). We loved it. Of course it doesn’t follow the book exactly, but does produce a wonderful product, faithful to the content of the book overall, though not in…

  • December 2002

    It’s December! It came really fast this year. Yes, the years go faster once you are an adult, but I must say this year sped past really fast, for that other years for sure. Wasn’t it just a few months ago that it snowed here at our house? Oh, that was December 2001. Today it’s…

  • Lexington, KY

    We left MI on Friday morning and drove to Lexington, KY, where we had a hotel reservation. This cut our trip basically in half. We can go multiple ways home, so this one was by choice, for the views it brings. The Lexington side of Kentucky is very horse farmy, with a few cows here…

  • The Leonids a bust for us …

    I saw one meteor. Faint and barely noticeable around 2am, with the moon brightly shining high in the sky but moving towards the Western sky. Things were clear. At 3:15am I check things out, and there were a few wispy clouds, the moon was further away from the “viewing area” so that was an improvement…

  • Leonid and weather

    We are looking forward to the “shooting star” event that should be fantastic on Tuesday morning, 5:30am here on the US East Coast. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/09oct_leonidsforecast.htm? Go to the above link to read about it. Weather.com is forecasting a low of 38 Monday night-Tuesday morning. Better than the previous night/morning of 27, which is tonight! Brrr! This’ll…

  • New computer!

    I built our newest computer last night. It’s so nice to have a fast machine again. I still don’t have my laptop back. I’ll sure be glad when I do, but in the mean time now, I’ve got a decent machine to use! Perhaps I’ll get some kind of posting of pictures done. As for…

  • Silly old bear

    Deep in the hundred acre wood where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood of Christopher’s childhood days A donkey named Eeyore is his friend and Kanga and little Roo There’s Rabbit and Piglet and there’s Owl, but most of all Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh Tubby little cubby all…

  • Paper Dolls – I

    Paper Dolls online — download and print! There are some lovely ones you can easily find, and I’ll start posting my favorites here. These first ones are from Gayle Broadbent-Ferris. She has others too, these are my favorite, more old-fashioned kinds. [My recommendation is to right-click each link below, and choose “Save Target As …”…