“Once I went a pickin’ peas, I thought I heard a peacock sneeze. He sneezed so hard…
Bits and Pieces
Ready Fox
It has been quite a few years since I last saw a red fox running free in the wild, but it happened…
Christmas 2011
Christmas has a way of gently sneaking up on people, more so as they get older. It seems like only…
Highlights
Not often do I get stirred about going to something, somewhere. But I feel that has all changed. It…
January 2012
Christmas comes and Christmas goes and the New Year is now upon us. It happens each and every year…
History repeated
It may not go down in the history books, but it happened again, exactly as it did along about this…
Sound of silence
It’s only mid-January, but do the math; we are now in what is colloquially known as the dead…
Hello, hello
Hello. Hello. Hellooooo. Is the first salutation that I hear each morning as I approach my canary…
I believe
Over this past holiday season, I received what seemed to me to be a far greater number of friendly…
Bitchy
I don’t know whether it’s the creeping up of age that is making me a little…
Chickery chick
“Chickery chick, cha-la, cha-la Check-a-la romey in a bananika Bollika, wollika, can’t…
Im not kidding
“Mares eat oats And does eat oats And little lambs eat ivy, A kid will eat ivy, too,…
My roadkill hat
Not too many of my readers will know the history of my ever-present signature visor. The story is…
Frank
Frank is a new avian friend of mine. There is no other way of expressing Frank’s disposition…
Bowstring bridges
Just a few short weeks ago, my son and I, while poking around the back streets of a small country…