Odd things happen on the farm, dontcha know. You go out to feed and there’s a goat hanging upside down from the fence. You go to throw afternoon scratch out and a chicken has disappeared, only to show up a couple hours later wanting back in the pen. Sometimes – especially recently – we’ve had chickens die for no discernible reason, those are always difficult. Just odd things; some funny, some sad, all odd. Continue reading
that’s what happens
20 Tuesday Aug 2019
Posted in Fun Stuff, Uncategorized
The morning didn’t start out wet, necessarily; it did rain some last night, but it wasn’t raining still. Neither Sue nor I were up for much today. Did the normal morning chore routine. Added some new things and took care of a few others. Just a rather normal Saturday morning. Too wet to move the RCW, we came in for breakfast after all the chores. Then I received a flash flood watch warning from NOAA. Yep, I’m that important that NOAA sends me text messages! We’re under flash flood watch until 3am tomorrow. That means that it has been completely cloudy and it has been wonderfully cool all day. I think we’re hitting the high right now and that is 76°! Lovely. 
The old cliché is that a “picture is worth a thousand words,” but I am here to tell you that most of our photos are worth, maybe, 50. They are all part of the adventure story though… sometimes the adventures happen so fast that we just aren’t able to capture them… mostly because a) we don’t have a camera/phone with us, b) we can’t get the camera/phone out of the pocket quickly enough, or c) didn’t even occur to us to take a photo. In other words, when we’re able to share photos, you should just consider yourselves lucky! Today, we’re catching up on photos that were taken and never shared… that’s rare. I was going to just post them and have you make up your own stories about them, but then I decided to give a bit of info. These will not be in chronological order. (There might be one photo that could be disturbing, but please know that everything turned out all right – you’ll know it when you see it.) 
We have cases of “best laid plans” all of the time. We think something is just going to take a few minutes to complete – and it ends up taking hours. Happens often. This week’s best laid plan was “once the old fence is gone from inside the goat pen, Scooby won’t be able to jump it any more.” Well, that’s what we thought. We figured he was using the old fence as a spring board to get over the new fence. 
Are there halcyon days of summer? Well, technically, no. And I suppose it really applies to the weather; currently our weather days are certainly not halcyon. However, as an idiom, I’d say that it refers to days of calm. Mostly with a nostalgic bent, which we don’t really have either, if I’m referring to this past week. I don’t know… maybe this is all too full of contradictions. 
I am just so confused! I’m having a difficult time adhering to the schedule that I set up for myself. Saturdays just don’t feel like days I should be blogging. Eventually we’ll get into the new habit. This week feels weird anyway, ended up working in Bisbee four days this week and so now today feels like Wednesday – yesterday felt like Tuesday – and now I’m going to have a Groundhog day feeling all day tomorrow! Craziness! 
Do you remember this artist? Her career really took off in the 1970’s. She did illustrations for Hallmark, Current, The Leanin’ Tree, Ranger Rick, and many others. I remember her paintings mostly from the greeting cards – which I loved. Many of her more popular drawings anthropomorphized woodland creatures in everyday activities. Like the one I’ve included here from her authorized information 
… is a magic number. At least that’s what I’m hoping, hoping, hoping. They say that things come in threes and, again – I’m hoping that is true. Can anyone guess what we might have had come again to make three? Let’s see… 
You know, there is a day for everything! I did not know there was a “World Snake Day”. It happens to fall on July 16th. How do I know this? As I usually do, I was googling images to go with today’s title (which we’ll get to in a mo) and found many images for “snake day”. I wonder when World Hippopotamus Day is – wait, I’ll google that – February 15th is World Hippo Day. Put that in your calendar right now so you won’t overlook it next year. Why are we calling today “snake day” even though we’re a week early? Keep reading to find out. 
It’s been an entire week since I’ve written. What happened? Just stuff. This week seems to have been so incredibly busy. We were running here and there, getting home late, getting up early – going to bed early. Just being busy bees. We did manage to get some things done this week, amidst all the chaos. 