First, thank you all for your birthday greetings to the MiL yesterday; I'm sure she appreciated your many messages of cheer. Second, I...

Back when A. and I were living in our crappy basement apartment in Albany, I went through a brief period of interest in foraging. For wild ...

I used to like rainy days. It meant a chance to stay inside and either get inside work done or, if I didn't feel like cleaning toilets-...

An evening out with the flock, with the head shepherd and his faithful dog in attendance . . . And the apprentice shepherd keeping an alert ...

Now look. You all know I love tomatoes. That has been well-documented . I plant the seeds and I always end up with too many seedlings. T...

Which is to say, not easy at all. Because at Blackrock, Sunday is FAR from being a day of rest. Pretty much the opposite, in fact. Like y...

But only because I have to give you the current (and FINALLY final) lamb count. We've been waiting and waiting on Millie the Merino to h...