Seldom does someone get the opportunity for stewardship of a piece of land that hasn’t had a great deal of care for many years. Along with the responsibility can come many surprises and lessons that are about more than birds and bees.
Category: Idle Thoughts
The Curmudgeon philosophy and lifestyle.
We all do things we aren’t proud of. But sometimes the moral karma of unsolicited phone sales calls just gets too far to one side and you have to let loose and have a good time. As long as no one gets hurt…
A couple of days ago I was using the garden tractor to mow the west forty. Since I’m still unfamiliar with the eccentricities of the tractor I managed to run out of gas in the middle of the field. As I was walking to the shed to get the gas can, I thought that there are far worse places to run out of gas. Here are five of them.
One of the advantages to living a long time is the collection of t-shirts you get that say ‘Been there, Done that’. This week a whole lot of people are going to finally get their figurative t-shirt that says they’ve seen a solar eclipse, a shirt I earned some twenty years ago.
There’s a scene in the original Ghostbusters movie where Bill Murray’s character is trying to convince the mayor of New York how dire the situation is. He claims the city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions with dogs and cats living together in mass hysteria. In my opinion that mixture is a recipe […]
A couple days ago the curmudgeon told you all about the move from the Compound to our new life here on the Homestead. He’s wallowing in blissful ignorance thinking my cell mate Roswell the Maine Coon and I are happy here. He thinks just because we have a sun room and an outdoor cage that […]
