Category: Photography
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Heavenly Heatwave Smoothie
One of my favourite tastes of the summer. And there are SO many. The Heatwave Smoothie. Designed and named by my friend Elaine in Australia who knows about the heat and nutrition. After I passed out last summer with a wee bit of sunstroke I am careful to ensure my body does not get too…
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Cooling Our Hot Heels
The heat has finally come to the Prairies. I must be very careful that everyone has plenty of water. All the pigs will have their wallows topped up each morning. And I have discovered that if you hose the heels of a cow she will stand quite still. If you try and hose her back…
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caught red-handed, I mean red lipped – with her hand, I mean head in..
Sheila got out while I was moving the chicks into their Ark. Ton went into high alert. The first I saw she was munching the dregs of the dropped apples under the Apple Pie Apple tree. As laid back and nonchalant as you please. Lumbering about. Then when I returned with a bucket of feed…
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The starlings have come
When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations. They fill…
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How to train your dog in Five minutes, Five times a Day.
I was not trained to train dogs. But my dogs are all very well trained in the basics. Many people will look at them work and say Who trained your dogs? Me. I say, a little surprised. Don’t you train your dog? You can you know. It is easy. I just know a little and…
