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Jinxed: RIP Pebble

And just as I wrote how “my” creatures were doing so well, our little runt, Pebble, who had held her own and was doing so well, got a wing torn off, through the wire fence of the chicks’ extra run, in broad daylight. We isolated her, and I looked at the wound as best I […]

Posted bykaatJune 18, 2017June 18, 2017Posted inchickens, natural worldLeave a comment on Jinxed: RIP Pebble

A Rainbow for the Moon

 

Posted bykaatJanuary 7, 2017Posted innatural worldLeave a comment on A Rainbow for the Moon

Owl

Following my nose, trying to find what was smelling so bad in the front yard, I almost stepped on him, the Barred Own. Flattened over his prey in the growing dusk I hadn’t seen him. He took off silently. Startling. Here’s what he had been covering: a headless cottontail in the front yard (photo taken […]

Posted bykaatNovember 15, 2016November 17, 2016Posted innatural world, nature studyLeave a comment on Owl

Break in the Heat

After over a week of temperatures in the 90s and scorching full sun, it is cooler overcast with some mild rain (still not enough, though). I get to catch my breath. Today I weeded, pruned and trellised tomatoes. Tomorrow I may really get to the wood chip piles: add them to Wood Chip Heaven and […]

Posted bykaatAugust 1, 2016Posted infood (growing, cooking, preserving), garden, natural worldLeave a comment on Break in the Heat

Funeral for a Sparrow, Chicken Eggs, Clay Bird

A friend found a dead sparrow and brought it to us for our home school. It resided in our freezer for a couple of weeks until today we remembered it. We unwrapped it and studied it for a bit, which wasn’t easy as it was frozen stiff. Then Amie suggested a funeral. We brought it […]

Posted bykaatMarch 30, 2015Posted inchickens, natural world, nature study, pain, illness, deathLeave a comment on Funeral for a Sparrow, Chicken Eggs, Clay Bird

And…. Again!

This was the third Monday, in a row, that school was cancelled. This storm’s a long one, and it’s not done yet. But this is what it looks like for now: I think that, after (very nearly!) eight years of this blog, the creation of a “weather” category is in order.

Posted bykaatFebruary 9, 2015Posted innatural world, weatherLeave a comment on And…. Again!

Junco

The juncos have arrived from up north. This morning we were all still in bed when there was a loud rap against our bedroom window pane. I jumped out of bed, knowing it was a bird that had just collided with the glass. I looked out and there, among the flock of juncos grazing in […]

Posted bykaatDecember 13, 2014December 13, 2014Posted innatural worldLeave a comment on Junco

Rotten Gifts

People have begun dropping off their rotten pumpkins! We have a couple of gigantic ones and quite a horde of little ones in the pile already. Wait… Someone couldn’t wait to enjoy the feast.

Posted bykaatDecember 1, 2014December 2, 2014Posted incompost, compost tea, extract, natural worldLeave a comment on Rotten Gifts

Golden Lake Images

I took these pictures during our trip up North. They go with the stormy weather that is knocking all the leaves off the trees here, and the book A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, which is excruciatingly beautiful. This place, after all, is as far North as I’ve ever been on this […]

Posted bykaatOctober 23, 2014Posted innatural world, photographs, reading and writingLeave a comment on Golden Lake Images

Dragonflies

We had the clothesline out on Sunday to dry out some tarps, and it was graced by two dragonflies who really liked their perch: they let us photograph them from pretty up close, and whenever they flew off, they returned immediately, so we got to try the new camera’s macro function and lens.

Posted bykaatAugust 12, 2014Posted innatural world, nature studyLeave a comment on Dragonflies

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