Afternoons with Sister Mercy
After a little bunny nibbled his way through our sweet potato crop last fall, I decided to try again with a different type of potato. I cleared the garden bed, raked in several loads of compost from our backyard bin and planted red potato seedlings in neat little rows in the dirt. As soon as…
Aloe There!
Something wasn’t right with Fluff. Our normally energetic and ever-curious young chicken was standing away from the others, not eating and lethargic. When I took a closer look, I noticed her comb had a grayish hue and it was drooping to one side. As I wrote in a previous post, Shelter from the Cold, a…
Being 6-7
Once again, it is a time of transitions in my backyard. My cold-weather-loving camellia bushes are still filled with late-season blooms, but most of their petals are starting to brown or just wilt and fall to the ground. A few months ago, the number of blossoms on those bushes were far outnumbered by nascent buds,…
Glean Daily 
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