Blaaough-blugh-blugh! There just ain’t no way, any how, any place, that one can…
Bits and Pieces
White-crowned
Each morning as I wander out to check and feed my birds, I am usually greeted by someone or other…
Ticking of time
The mind roams often with inconsequential thoughts that never pause long enough to allow a pen to…
Bees, bees
Bees, bees, where be the bees? This I wonder as I wander each morning out to check on the health…
Winter jacket
It has been a long time since I dug out, from the back of the closet, my winter jacket on the third…
Patience
I’m beginning to lose my patience with my peacocks. On the other hand, what I know about…
Bare with me
Living as I now do, just west of Markdale, caused a little concern when I first heard that a bear…
Hot and sticky
I am no longer one who enjoys the cold. I’m a lover of sunny, white cloud, blue sky weather.…
Resident rooster
I‘m quite sure that, in the four score years that I have been hanging around, I could count…
Kingbirds
It has been a couple or more years since we have seen them. The fact remains that the large tree,…
Hot, hot and hotter
I am apparently a thermodynamic fanatic. The switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius has never turned my…
Flood of memories
A couple of days before writing, my son and I went to pick up a so-called elderly neighbour who…
Braggin’ time again
Believe it, yes! Or believe it, no! It’s a fact! The article on which your eyes now ponder is…
Lanky legs
On the Aug. 1 long weekend, I found myself out back of our workshop. I had plunked my butt on the…
Wayside thoughts
Not often do I steal words from a country and western song, but fact is fact: “I have nothing…