It’s still 20 minutes to the hour of 5am as I sit down at my computer to rattle off the words…
Bits and Pieces
Big John
Whenever I hear big and John, lacking separated succession, my mind immediately roves back to…
Hay shortage
The writing is already on the wall – there is going to be a terrible shortage of hay this…
Fledglings
“There’s a bluebird on our windowsill, there’s a rainbow in the sky.” That…
Laughter
Though my chuckle bucket, due to masses of email, near runneth over, it is not too often that we…
Time marches on
It’s bragging time again, and I’m kind of proud of it. The fact is, the article you are…
Butterflies
Butterflies, and I’m not talking about butterflies in my stomach. The three score years and…
Not complaining
Flash, bang, clash, a heart-stopping ear-splitting crack, and a not very humble loud, grumbling…
The rains came
Some of the weather statistics that were spit from the lips on both radio and TV recently stated…
Silver Sebrights
“Like butterflies,” she said they were, and I could find words not better to describe…
Pekin Ducks
As the name implies, Pekin ducks originated in Peking, China. They are strictly a domesticated…
Gold laced cochins I
It sounded to me like some person choking. I had just walked up to open the door to enter the…
Gold laced cochins II
I have always been in the habit of collecting junk. Not junk, junk, that is obviously something…
Fair is fair
Is it fair that all fall fairs fall in the fall? That queer quirk of a query struck me as I was…
Painting
I have probably forgotten more than the average person will ever have the chance to know about…