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Our house is surrounded by cows. Some of them are clever, some are sweet and some are stubborn enough to argue with a tree. It is amazing the range of personality traits one can observe from a cow who wanders the fields, eats grass, hay and feed. She looks after her baby, watches over the…

Hi Julia, Here is the link to your newsletter: https://juliaschmeelk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/newsletter_2.pdf Just copy and paste that into an email to all of your subscribers. ……. Bryon Craig Craig Technology Consulting 201 E. 4th Street Salem, MO 65560 573-453-2322 —–Original Message—– From: Julia Schmeelk [mailto:julia@juliaschmeelk.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 10:28 AM To: Bryon Craig Subject: How…

The weather is fickle in the Midwest. Dry as dust, flash floods and fluctuating temps can make anyone expand their bag of emergency equipment. It has always been weird, only now it is even weirder. The extreames are growing so we get more. If you think we are confused by shifting patterns imagine the squirrels,…

One of the most challenging parts of being human is mastering communication. I allude to the difficulties in my books, but I live the challenge daily. I know of a number of people who simply assume that everyone follows the same verbal routines as they do and proceed from there, adding it to written language…

We traversed a number of rivers, across small mountains and flat lands that even in February were brimming with life. The geese in groups and some other unknown birds were amassed and flew like a whirling tornado in some places. Flocks honked overhead as human traffic whizzed by on the highway. Have you ever wondered…

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As our world gets a light drenching and the temp creeps over freezing all the piles of white frozen fluff melt slowly, aquiring a gray film. Everything looks dingy until the next freeze and the next layer of white fluff falls from the sky.

It is one thing when I break out in spots, sneeze my head off or have some lovely unexplained reaction, but my poor dog has some unknown allergy and it is making him nuts. The poor thing has been to the vet twice already and has been on meds, had his food changed, been forced…

Yes dragons snort and humans who spend time with dragons accept that behavior. Maybe not all humans, but certain types who enjoy inflicting the gross factor on others. Grabon first snorts on Heron in Gordon’s Pride and it is obvious from Heron’s reaction that it is not the first time. That snort of course includes…