Buying gifts has always been one of my favorite things. Sometimes I hit big, sometimes it is a complete miss, but I try. My husband on the other hand has great luck. This last Christmas he designed and made 3 ten carrot necklaces out of 3 Easter carrot bowling sets. He drilled, he strung, he really worked at it. I should note he designs jewelry, and they were pretty amazing…

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…