One bird! Two birds! Red bird! Blue bird! How’s that to whet your appetite? Okay, now I’m going to ask my birding friend Kim to mouse over each one and make sure I have them labeled correctly. And then, there are about two more good birding posts to come and a couple of birds I…
Okay, internet’s been down and since I don’t have a close neighbor where I can just hop over and jump on the net, we’ve all had to suffer some withdrawals!!! I came here first thing to check on y’all and make sure you hadn’t all deserted me! Thanks, SweetM for keeping the porch light on!…
Suzanne The Farmer’s Wife, who makes her own laundry soap by the 3-gallon batch (and I am duly impressed by the way) just happened to be the first one to post on this contest and she just happened to be right! Except that it is not a soft shelled crab, but a very lively hard-shelled…
1) Butterweed 2) Lizard’s Tail 3) Snowbell 4) Still unidentified . . . the leaves resemble wild geranium. 5) Still unidentified 6) Still unidentified 7) Purple Vetch 8) Daisy Fleabane 9) And lastly, these are the flowers that set this whole thing in motion. I looked out my kitchen window, and there they were, on…
Now that you’re all coming down from you Easter candy sugar highs, it’s time for a little brain strain. And oh by the way, I learned something new at the crawfish boil at BigSis’s two weeks ago. Recess is no longer called recess, it’s called “brain break” or something like that. Interesting. First off, for…
Springtime. Flowers. Blooms. Pollen. Nectar. Honey. Bees. Bees? When was the last time you sat in your yard in the middle of a clover patch surrounded by wild honey bees? Probably not since your childhood. Chances are, if you do see a honey bee, it belongs in a white box in someone’s back yard. Wild…