Ocean

Well, you already know this about me -- I absolutely love my birthdays. (Today I am 71.) From the first minute of wake up to the last minute...

I have to say, there is some statement being made here: today is the last day that I am 70 and the day conspires to remind me that however m...

There may not be a post today. Not to worry, it's not me, it's my hosting platform. I will come back to this if I can tonight but ho...

There is no doubt: birth order matters. In what way? That's a tricky one! The older kid will claim the younger one gets away with so muc...

I do not know what came over me this morning. Nothing short of bizarre. Got up at the usual time, making my way to feed the animals, except ...

And now we're in for a bit of a cool down, and with that cool down comes a gardening slow down and indeed, a different kind of a day.  B...

No no, not the overhead kind, in a stall, in the bathroom. I mean an outdoor rain shower, of the gentle sort. The one that gives strength an...

This is so like us! I walk over to check the blooms on the fruit trees in the new orchard and I pause by what used to be our tomato field an...