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3:30 PM 101F <--- called it yesterday 😐 4% humidity sunny This is about a week earlier than we typically hit triple digits. We're moving into a La Niña weather cycle which means a particularly brutal, hot, dry summer for us. Right now we're in first summer. Second summer begins around July...

I love her veil!

I'm guessing she's around 19 or 20 in that photo. I don't think you should compare yourself to someone who was an actress and a great beauty in her time. I wasn't trying to make anyone feel bad, I hope I didn't. I was just looking back wistfully at youth, myself (I'm in my fifties). Back when...

5:00 PM 99F 6% humidity sunny I think we'll hit triple digits tomorrow. 😒 I agree with this gila monster's assessment: "Bleh!" A gila (heel-uh) monster is a 12" venomous lizard native to the southwestern U.S. Its venom is described as "hot lava coursing through your veins." It is regarded as...

I've always liked Angela Lansbury. Weren't we all lovely when we were this young? Here is Irene Ryan, not terribly young but quite elegant, she looks like she could be a First Lady in this portrait. I love her gentle smile. She looks like she's patiently waiting for you to finish what you're...

People keep telling me to put him on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace but I refuse to do that because we're near the border and cock fighting is a problem here even though it's illegal. Unwanted roosters often end up being "training" birds. That's cruel and horrible. We love him and he's a...

Mine, too. Irene Ryan was 60 when the show started. Just a few years older than I am now. 🤔😳

Haha - I love the idea of a cross-country road trip with a chicken. Sneaking him into a Best Western, hoping he doesn't crow... I've never been to Michigan, if I had the time I would totally do that. That would be a fun adventure.

I know this is a long shot but just in case anyone is looking for a Bielefelder cockerel and lives around the southern Arizona area, our 8 week old boy needs a new home ASAP. He is big, healthy, happy, and friendly, you can pick him up and hold him, he gets along perfectly with our 14 girls. He...

Turns out that wadded up brown paper that comes in Amazon boxes is also good under painting projects when smoothed out. Apparently that's the 21st century version of newspaper.

Any problems with rodents?

From my home town.

11:30 AM 93F now high of 97F later this afternoon 6% humidity sunny It's snake season, they're everywhere (this is a gopher snake, non-venomous and good pest control).

A baby Southern grasshopper mouse* got trapped in the henhouse tonight. I guess it slipped in during the day. I saw it on the camera this evening. I thought, "Hope your affairs are in order little guy," figuring the chickens would get it. They didn't. Okay, it's dark, the chickens can't see it...

Ours is a run, too. We had to put off building a proper coop until fall, when the hell months have passed and we can return to doing stuff outdoors. It's a long run against a fence, about 180 sq ft. They have food and water in the run. The outdoor brooder is at one end of the run. That's...

I don't know. I had a very bad experience in the 1994 Northridge quake. I do not like to talk about it. I don't want to live through anything like that again so I'm reluctant to return to earthquake areas. I am not so young anymore and I might not survive the next one. Nevertheless that is my...