Sometimes retired folks like us have just a bit too much time on our hands. Idle hands. Idle minds. This week has been especially difficult with the smoke from two forest fires near us driving us inside. On Saturday afternoon we were outside ...
Scavenger Hunt Sunday
The items for today's photographic scavenger hunt are: 1. Color 2. View 3. Stroll 4. Outfit 5. Blocks We decided to start our scavenger hunt by walking over the tallest bridge in the state of California, the Foresthill Bridge, right ...
Chickens…Heritage or Imported?
In the world of chicken keeping, a debate exists between those who raise heritage breeds and those who raise imported breeds. The heritage breed advocates tend to be more vocal than those who prefer imports. I am one of the import ...
Selfies aren’t for me and a giveaway! Winner!
My policy regarding selfies is I don't take them and I won't be buying Kim Kardashian's coffee table book of 375 selfies titled Selfish. I had to make an exception this morning. No, I'm not buying the book, I took a selfie. Recently I had my hair ...
Farm Focus Friday – July 25, 2014
I have been a little bit chick-obsessed lately so I decided for today's Farm Focus Friday I would stay out of the coops and chick brooder.I took my camera out first thing this morning to capture a few images. We are in the midst of a horrible drought ...
The Family Dustbath
Icelandic Supermom Lukka was out with her brood today. She is raising two Cuckoo Marans, and three Brabanter chicks, all five weeks old. Lukka is what I like to call a super-broody, a chicken that lives to hatch and raise baby chicks. I cannot tell ...
Farm Focus Friday – 7-18-2014
Just a quick peek at life on the farm! ...
Summer Lovin’
They say every summer has a story. Around here, it's the summer of love. S U M M E R is like the ultimate one-night stand: hot as hell, totally thrilling, and gone before you know it. S U M M E R where all the days run ...
From Russia with Love
The Pavlovskaja chicken is one of the oldest Russian breeds. The ancestors of Pavlovskaja hens came to the territory of Russia supposedly from Persia more than 300 years ago. In 1895 it was mentioned in the literature as "an extreme rarity." In the ...
Farm Focus Friday – July 4th!
My son and his family are visiting from southern California so it has been a busy few days. I did manage to get around and take some photos of our holiday decor. I love patriotic holidays and I usually have the bunting hanging on our old wagon but ...
It’s the little things these days.
As I age, I find that it doesn't take as much to make my day. Have you noticed this too? I used to live for the big moments; marriage, children, grandchildren, a house, a new car, a big vacation, saving a life. But divorce, remarriage, disability, ...
Farm Focus Friday 6-27-2014
I tried to get out to take some photographs this morning before risking my camera melting in the heat. We have been blessed with a few mild days, but today Mother Nature promises to turn on the blast furnace and let it go for a few days. I did a ...
Post #888!
This is post #888 over the course of five and a half years of blogging. That amounts to a post every other day. That's a lot of recipes and farm stories! Instead of a recipe or farm story today I am going to share some of the miscellaneous pictures ...
A little getaway to beat the heat…
We accepted the kind offer of a friend to pet-sit and we headed out of the sweltering heat of the central valley to the cool California coast. We arrived at Half Moon Bay on Sunday and will be leaving tomorrow. I wanted to post daily but the ...
Farm Focus Friday 6-6-2014
The weather is heating up fast. We were fortunate to find a field mower who could clear the grass from the pastures. If we had waited a little longer, it would have been too late. The guys won't mow when there is a chance of a spark igniting a fire. ...
The Old Egg Swap Trick
We have a Black Copper Marans hen who has been broody for several weeks. If you are here for the recipes and don't know chickens, being broody means sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching baby chicks. This hen lives in a coop without a rooster ...
Freaky Farm Friday
This being Friday, I would normally post a bunch of pictures under the title Farm Focus Friday. Normally. This Friday morning I went out to do my chores with my camera around my neck. I imagined cute animal pictures, pretty ...
Antique Street Fair
The Auburn Antiques Street Fair was held today. I almost didn't go for fear of the parking nightmare I knew would await me. The vendors start setting up at 3:00 a.m. and shoppers are allowed to come join them, flashlights in hand, to score the best ...
Farm Focus Friday 5-9-2014 at the Egg Farm
I am a bit tardy in posting my Farm Focus Friday photos because it became Food Focus Friday instead. Friday was the last day of the first week of my food photography class, Food Photography Au Naturel, taught by guest instructor and food photographer ...
Hen House Bullies
Girls in the hen-house don't always get along. There are things that go on in there that you never know about unless you happen by with your video camera in hand. I heard some commotion in the layer coop as I walked by this morning and decided to ...