Our summer was bookended by a pair of freak storms.  A late snowstorm on the May long weekend settled on branches of freshly opened leaves creating an unseasonal weight that brought thousands of trees to their knees.  On their way to the ground they pulled down power lines leaving hundreds of residents clutching their garden [...]

Cosmo wasn’t always a scaredy dog.  For her first six years her only annoying habit was running away.  Once she starts running she’s like one of those thoroughbred race horses.  She just can’t stop.  By the time she tuckers herself out she’s so far from home she can’t find her way back and it’s up [...]

I am so excited I can barely type.  I know you’re going to be thrilled too, so hold onto your socks.  This morning when I went out to feed the chickens I discovered (drum roll please) my first egg!    As I held the shelled prize in my palm the past six months tripped through [...]

Rusty the Rooster is a coward.  He’s chicken even for a chicken. Convinced the world is out to get him his life has become a self fulfilling prophecy.  The other chickens plop down off the roosts in the morning and stroll outside to see what pleasures await, but not Rusty.  Rusty explodes off the roost [...]