Coming off an island in Alaska where the weather was wet, cold and inhospitable most of the time, Missouri had an abundance of sun. Now that we have been here over a year, I have noticed, it also has a distinct lack of rain. I can’t help wondering if this is the foundation of the next dessert. At one point there was a massive inland sea, fossils of sea creatures…

This morning, just before lunch, my husband stepped outside onto the porch to have a smoke and called me out to join him. Then he yelled, bring the iPad, we need pics of this. I did and stood there in the freezing cold with my coat undone giggling. Two horses and a cow were eating the bird food out of our bird baths. We stock them with seeds in the…

Early January is always a crazy, busy time. Not only is it clean up from the holidays, but my birthday is the 4th and we like to celebrate that too. Today I am cooking different finger foods and we have the neighbors coming to celebrate the NewYear. Wouldn’t you know the bathtub drain is frozen? I think I’ll boil some water and see if I can unplug it. Even when…