• Fair Day

    March 27, 2016 Each fall we take time off and head to the Central Washington Fair. Less than an hour from the farm, it is a great place to have a family day. There is a little something for everyone. You cannot go to the fair and not meet a neighbor or two. And we’re…

  • Wise Fence

    sage leans into fence whispering wisdom, lean ear to wire and listen

  • Coffee & Microwave 2

    May 22, 2016  My first recollection of coffee is at the kitchen nook table at my folk’s home in Granada Hills.  Three or four at the time, my image is a little fuzzy.  However, I figure my first awareness of coffee were during my wombed days.  Mamma, on the other hand, was three or four…

  • Rose

    wild rose opens to morning sun seducing days first bee to relationship

  • Coffee & Microwave 1

    May 8, 2016   Morning coffee has me thinking about giving up the microwave.  Our maker of electromagnetic radiation gave up the ghost about six months ago.  However, having returned from Ireland to a grant-based job—meaning the job could go away as the grant wrapped up—our daughter, Katherine, stayed with us until she obtained a…