Rough-legged Hawk P hoto by Eugene Beckes Creative Commons, some rights reserved.   Rough-legged Hawk   Photo by Walter Siegm...

  The weather has turned hot and sunny and so as the saying goes, we make hay while the sun shines!  The new equipment has been ...

    The Buzz is... We have BEES! Lots of BEEZ! On one end of the ranch there's a large colony ...

Two little Scotties Naughty little Scotties Playing ball in Mommy's flowies Spanks and owies.  ............................ ...

 Cecropia Moths rested quietly on my flag all morning. The grands came to see them and study them.    My flower garden is ove...

Yesterday it began.  NumberOneSon has been checking and greasing and preparing the tractors and equipment for the big run.  Haying i...

 First up, not really in the garden, but geraniums in pots. Some gardens can be in pots, can't they? Secondly, I couldn't ...

for the babies.   One for Lil.   One for Chief. Patterns here and here .

Two little girls with no summer nighties Grammy sews Who knows What they'll get? An orange-y and a white-y! ........... ...

While the nice rains have been falling, the ground has been softening up, and guess what's popping through?  Mushrooms!  As I walk...