My journey across the internet takes me lots of places. I read a lot of interesting things. However, some of these things are completely absurd. In this article, I'll banter about one of more recent items.
My journey across the internet takes me lots of places. I read a lot of interesting things. However, some of these things are completely absurd. In this article, I'll banter about one of more recent items.
We just had a brief hailstorm which has subsequently turned into snow. There was just a sudden onslaught of lentil-sized hail falling. It took me by surprise. The ducks, too. This is their first time experiencing such a thing. They did seem to take it in stride at first. (As always, click on any photo...
You may be aware that the House and Senate Agricultural Committees are going to be submitting the Farm Bill to the supercommittee that was formed after this summers manufactured budget crisis. This is something they’ve been trying to do in quiet — because the bill will have effect for five years, and typically, it...
Our son and I took our baby goats for a walk on Sunday afternoon while George worked on his car. Who doesn’t love photos of baby goats? As always with photos on our site, click on any one to embiggen.
All of this talk about ducks yesterday got me to thinking about our new addition — she arrived last weekend. We got a call from a gentleman whose grandkids had given he and his wife two ducklings for Easter earlier this year, and they were looking for a home for the one that remained....
Since we got our ducks this year, we’ve enjoyed watching them and their antics. I’ve also been thinking about some of the idioms in our language involving ducks, in conjunction with what I’ve observed, and I have some thoughts in that regard. Let’s start out with “like water off a duck’s back.” When you...
If you follow the food rights movement at all, you may already be aware of what happened recently at Quail Hollow Farm in Nevada. During a by-invitation farm-to-fork dinner event in which farm foods were being prepared on-site by a professional chef in certified kitchen facilities and served to guests who were fully aware...
