We’ve got a cooling trend going on here in the White Mountains of Arizona, and Terry and I have been taking advantage of it to get a lot of yard work done. Terry has been weeding along the fence line where she wants to plant some more wildflowers, pruning plants in the greenhouse, and making […]
The weather was perfect for doing some yard work yesterday, somewhere in the mid-70s with lots of blue sky overhead. We were waiting for a day like that and took advantage of it. I started out by picking up the “deposits” that Alli leaves for me to discover in the backyard. Not the most pleasant […]
We had yet another tornado watch yesterday evening and last night. Fortunately, it all went north of us, but we were still prepared and on the alert in case things took a turn. They say that the spring tornado season ends in June here in Alabama, and it can’t come soon enough for me. I […]
I’ve never tried to join Mensa and I’ve never claimed to be a genius, but it wasn’t until yesterday that I realized I’ve been a fool. A complete fool. From the time I was a kid I always found some way to make a buck, whether it was mowing grass or shoveling snow, or later […]
With my new book, Big Lake Misfit, off to Judy and Roberta for their final proofreading, yesterday Terry and I decided to get some mowing done because our yard and pasture were turning into jungles. But before we could do that, my Kubota tractor needed some attention. The last time I used it I got […]
We got a little break in the weather yesterday, which is not to say that it was anywhere close to cool, but at least it wasn’t as hot as it has been. It got up to about 92° but the heat index was only about 99°. That may not sound like much, but it was […]
Yesterday was not quite as hot, with the temperatures in the upper 80s and the heat index somewhere around 95°. That’s not great, but much better than the triple digit heat indexes we’ve been having. We took advantage of the opportunity to get some mowing done, me on the Kubota tractor and Terry on the […]
While we have been fortunate not to be hit with any of the terrible weather that Texas and the Midwest have been experiencing lately, for the next week or so we are supposed to have some thunderstorms. A big one came through yesterday evening, with driving rain and lots of thunder and lightning, knocking the […]
As often happens, the weatherman was wrong in the forecast for yesterday. He said it would be 88° but it didn’t get that hot, so I managed to get some mowing in during the afternoon. It’s a never-ending task as fast as the grass grows around here. Terry was going to mow the grass in […]
Terry and I wanted to get some mowing done yesterday and figured we would wait until the late afternoon or early evening to get started, when it had cooled down a bit. That’s the great thing about this time of year, it stays light longer. I figured that in the meantime I would do some […]
In a blog post titled Books And Bees 10 days ago, I wrote that we had mowed our lawns and most of the main pasture, leaving the area where Terry’s fruit trees are untouched because it was full of clover that the bees were happily enjoying. I also left the back pasture behind the barn […]
For the last three weeks or so, we have been commenting on how high the grass is getting in our front and side yards, and in the pasture. It was definitely time to mow the grass, however there is so much clover out there feeding the bees that we kept putting it off. We finally […]
We had a couple of other contractors come out yesterday to give us bids on the deck project, and I think we have decided on who we’re going to have do the work for us. One other person is supposed to get back to us on Monday, so we’ll wait until we see what he […]
Yesterday was a good writing day for me and I managed to get about 3,000 more words done in my new Big Lake book. And as happens so many times, the characters threw me a curveball and took the story off in a whole new direction from where I thought it was going. That’s why […]
I have always been a big believer in setting goals. Jim Summers, my favorite high school teacher and a dear friend as an adult, always referred to me as his Number One Son. When I was a teenager eager to get my driver’s license and my own car, he told me that I needed to […]
I goofed in yesterday’s blog when I said that the police car on the cover of Return to Dog’s Run was a 1960 Ford. Blog reader Dave Davis corrected me on that, telling me he thought it was a 1963, and he was right. I should have known better, because back in my high school […]