Sending this out to my friend Jay Moore at Moose Country radio, where the tagline is: “If you’ve ever [insert goofy jackpine knuckleheaded behavior here] … yer one of us.”…View post

Once upon a time I wrote a book about (among other things) building a chicken coop: Now we have a new project in the works…

And what’s got her going is Tab Benoit, “Somebody’s Got To Go,” off Power of the Pontchartrain. “You play the piano*, Daddy, I’ll dance!” *Air piano.  Don’t tell her.

Moved the chicken panels while the sun was still on the rise.  The neighbor is up too – a stratified skein of smoke hangs over the valley below (these days…View post

The sun has been bright, the air cool.  The leaves are showing, but tentative.  Popple trees leading the way.  Sunday morning I was wishing the temperature would match the sun,…View post