Category: SA Times

Periodic review of life on Six Acres

April 24
by rakeeter
  • Chris hangs up his spurs

April 1 No April Fools We got .14 of an inch of rain last night. More is needed, certainly, but that’s a good start.

April 8 Eclipse Hooray! Eclipse Day! So excited. I have my eclipse glasses ready to go. Can’t wait.

In other news, Chris got fed up and retired. Says he liked his job and all but his boss gave him the fantods and he decided to walk just because he could. April 5 was his last day and we had a minor celebration during happy hour. He says he has been so busy at work lately that he’s built up a list of to-dos that will keep him busy for a while. After that, who knows. It will be interesting to see what mischief he gets into as time goes by.

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March 2024
by rakeeter
  • Spring break ensemble

March 16 Spring break is winding down. The Wylie women are preparing to depart for home with their customary calm and aplomb. Highlight of the week was trip to Palo Duro Canyon on Tuesday. The weather was good and we hiked to the Lighthouse. It has been a long time since I’ve hiked there and I don’t remember it being as long as it seemed this time. We stopped by the Bagel Place to load up on fodder on the way and got to the Lighthouse trail about 11:00. Not realizing how long the hike would take or that some members of the party had not eaten breakfast, I suggested we make the Lighthouse trek before lunch. When we got back around 3:00, people were ready for something to eat and drink. As we made the trip to PDC, I wondered where we would hike after the Lighthouse. No one was interested in hiking after lunch so we headed home.

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February 2024
by rakeeter
  • Snowy four wing salt bush

February 11 Snow was predicted for Sunday and so it passed that I spent the day holed up in my comfy little house reading, listening to music and watching the snow come down. Saturday was damp and dismal so I spent the day inside as well, but I was grateful Friday was suitable for outdoor activities and Abigail and I got a good start on cleaning up the southeast tree line. Wednesday we were able to do a little trimming and load up the proceeds plus previous collections and make a brush site run, which we were glad to do because it wasn’t a very pleasant day. In fact, it started to rain just as we were dumping our load. Gosh, had to run the windshield wipers driving home. We only had Wednesday and Friday to work on account of our trip down southeast so we eschewed the Bluff and worked on SA.

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January 2024
by rakeeter
  • Late December Dallas Arboretum

January 15 It is good ol’ January and we’ve had a little cold weather to drive that point home. Long about Monday the eighth it snowed. Not your “Oh isn’t it pretty. Let’s make snow ice cream” kind of snow. More like a short blizzard. It had been cloudy and cool for a couple of days. We even got a little rain a day or two before the mini-blizzard. So what happened was the sky was cloudy, like I said. In the afternoon while loafing around the house I heard rumbles of thunder. The next thing I knew, the wind hit and the snow pellets (not flakes and not sleet) blew horizontally across SA removing any leaves still clinging to limbs on a few trees. Standing at the kitchen window I was admiring the storm and noticed the chickens huddled together outside the chicken yard. I debated whether to try to put them in the chicken house but decided not to because they probably would just run from me and then we would all be miserable. As I said, the blizzard was short lived and at dinner that evening I learned that Rebecca, Abigail and Chris had braved the storm to collect the flock and get it into the chicken coop. I had settled down to read a book and missed the rodeo.

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December 2023
by rakeeter
  • Zfam 23

December 18 White egg mystery

For some time now there has been a mystery involving the appearance of white chicken(?) eggs randomly on the place, usually in or close to the northwest quadrant. You see, none of the resident chickens lay white eggs. Their eggs are mostly a shade of beige, but some a light shade of green. Plus, they lay them in the boxes designed for that purpose in the chicken house, not indiscriminately around the prairie.

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