Lift off! This weekend is the annual balloon festival in our parts and it’s a big deal. Unlike last year, when many of the events were washed out by rain, conditions are pretty much ideal. Around six yesterday morning I was interrupted in my chores by what looked like giant soap bubbles rising above the […]
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We’d been hungering for it all winter long and yesterday our heart’s desire finally reappeared: that would be the pulled pork sandwich stand at the Masonic lodge in Coila. You may remember me writing about Craig Phalen, the chef at our local county prison whose true passion is making barbecue in his giant, pig-shaped smoker. […]
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A great sense of relief settled on the farm this week with the arrival of electric netting to protect our flock of laying hens. We recently suffered a 30 percent loss of our Rhode Island Reds to some kind of predator attack. Fox? Coyote? We’re still not sure. It started brazenly during the day, then […]
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