I spent yesterday researching wooden blocks. I really had no idea what I was getting into. I thought I was just looking for a quick set of blocks to purchase mostly because I was feeling lazy. I know I could make him some blocks I just didn’t feel like it. Until I saw how much […]
This is River. He is one form of our typical Sunday afternoon entertainment. River lives for two things. III and ducks. And in the absence of ducks he lives for bumpers which are a training tool I typically get to see River work with. River has two gears. Sit. And run fast. These gears […]
Ok, well maybe not buckets, but one big bucket. And speaking of one big bucket, who left the bucket of the tractor in this position anyway? Imagine the Monster’s surprise when he realized that HIS “toy” tractor not only had a new feature on it but it was a water feature! This was even better […]
I’ve always had laboid dogs. You know what I mean. Those dogs you find on the side of the road or at a shelter and you can’t tell exactly what they are but you can see some lab in them. I like these dogs. They tend to have all of the great characteristics of labs […]
Last summer III’s Granny moved off of the mountain she’d lived on forever and into town. His mother sent us up to the mountain to see if there was anything left there that we might want. We came home with mostly practical stuff…a refrigerator for downstairs, some garden tools, and his grandfather’s bird books. We […]
Well, it’s not actually raining here….although I think we are supposed to get some rain. But it’s raining where we planned on being today. We were planning on making a trip to a farm north of us to visit some friends from the farmers market that we haven’t seen in a couple of weeks. They […]
When the sun came out yesterday afternoon we just had to take the Monster to the playground. Not only was this fun but it served a dual purpose in that it wore him out right before the Razorback game began which led to a timely long nap. This is only the fourth time we’ve taken […]
From a distance this year’s zinnia plot looks as if it might still have some life in it. But on closer inspection I can see that despite their attempts at new growth and putting on new buds after each rain we’ve had in the past few weeks, they are no match for the handful of […]
Today is gray. Cold. And windy. So I’d rather talk about last weekend. Which was beautiful. Perfect. And so October in Arkansas. They say fall is the best time to prepare new ground for planting. We never get that done. Most of the time we’re lucky if we get all of our existing ground worked […]