This morning I went to a pancake restaurant in a town that I don’t usually go to. I met a friend there for brunch. I ordered what I usually order at “my” local pancake house - fried potatoes, and poached eggs. I asked that the potatoes be fried without any onions, because I don’t like onions! Well, this place just could not seem to get it right! It was awful. Poached eggs are supposed to be soft and runny in the middle, and these [...]
Well, even though I have a little tree, I haven’t finished decorating it yet. I ran into a little bit of a snag when I opened the boxes of ornaments. These are the same ornaments that have decorated the family tree for many decades; perhaps even generations. I found that every ornament that I saw brought back powerful memories of my family, and the sense of loss from having both of my parents taken from me so early in my [...]
I was surprised to notice when I went into the basement this morning that my water heater does not have an insulated blanket over it! Seems to me that I put one on it a couple of years ago. Last year I had some maintenance work done on my furnace and water heater; I have a contract with my propane company to do an annual check up. I think that the maintenance man might have removed the water heater blanket [...]
I cannot believe that it is December already! Life on the farm has kept me so busy that the days seem to stretch on forever but they fly by. I know that doesn’t make any sense at all. Its just that I am so busy every day, doing really hard work that it just seems to never end, and I go to bed exhausted almost every day. The alarm goes off in the morning way too early and before you [...]
I was reading that there was a study done about animals detecting the earth’s magnetic field. The study showed that cows and deer tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. The scientists say they are surprised that hunters and herdsmen and farmers didn’t notice it. Who says farmers didn’t notice it? Did they ask any farmers? Maybe farmers noticed it but were too busy farming to care about something like that and get all excited about it and report it [...]