Category Archives: Family

Hello Solstice. I greet you with bittersweet joy. You are glorious. Incomparable. I know if I chose I could walk out, at this absurd midnight hour and read a book in your glory. And yet. You herald the inexorable decline … Continue reading →

Lots of busy in last seven months. New house is wonderful. Haven’t completed moving out of old place. And puppy.

We started house hunting when in late June 2020 we learned that the Municipality of Anchorage intended to purchase a building 800 feet from our home to provide daytime homeless services. The MOA has a history of ignoring the crime … Continue reading →

I was FaceBooking and saw an interesting simple graphic this morning: I posted to my friend: I am such a data nerd. I wanted to see what the numbers were behind these percentages. And I do NOT want to clean … Continue reading →

The first fruits of our labor.

Pics of current build out. More or less in maintenance mode now. Will add a roof extension on the opposite side of the coop to protect the chicken feed from the elements. Kits are nearly two weeks old. Their eyes … Continue reading →

What I wrote to Dusky’s breeder: Dear xxx Dusky kindled about 1 AM this morning. I checked her this morning 7:30 AM. She was out of the nest box and hungry. She ate with good appetite after several days of … Continue reading →

Mama and two calves in front of our house. And crazed Cardigans. I love that smack dab in a city of many hundreds of thousands of people, moose and (rarely) bear walk through our circle.

A memory was niggling at me and I finally recalled it. I bought a Shetland pony named Spirit with my paper route earnings when I was 11. She bucked. A lot. And was unridable. I broke her to harness and … Continue reading →

More stuff completed this evening. This looks like a lot but most of these things were 10-15 minute tasks. Attached a silver tarp to the top of the rabbit roof to reflect the sun and reduce the temp under the … Continue reading →