Periodic review of life on Six Acres
by rakeeter We celebrated Joyce’s Uncle Gerald’s 100th birthday in Fort Worth Friday night. His grandchildren put on the celebration. As you can imagine for someone 100 years old, even the grandchildren are of a, ah, certain age. Continue reading “Uncle Gerald’s 100th birthday”
by rakeeter It was late when my plane landed at Bradley Field near Hartford so I didn’t get see any foliage as we flew over the area. The next morning as I drove to the office it seemed like there wasn’t much color. To my surprise, the three days I was there there was a tremendous amount of change so that by the time I left the foliage was beautiful under clear, blue skies. New England is hard to beat this time of year. Continue reading “When whoever’s in New England is through with you…”
by rakeeter There was good chance of rain Friday night and severe weather, too. We got neither, unless you call a wetting rain. I guess I shouldn’t complain. There was a chance of tornadoes, too. Continue reading “No rain”
by rakeeter There are scrub jays about. At least I think that’s what they are. Could be Mexican jays. Anyway, they are pretty and interesting. Looks like our hummers have decamped for a warmer clime. They need to since it got down into the 30’s last night.
We lost another guinea the other night. Chris is hatching out keats and in the wee hours one morning he decided the one in the incubator that had hatched the afternoon before was looking listless and needed to be moved to where he could have food and water. Chris didn’t want to put it in with the bigger keats so he put it in a box by itself. He needed a source of warmth so he decided to borrow the light from guinea tower. Continue reading “Scrub jays”
by rakeeter Friday afternoon we drove to Garland to help celebrate Vivian’s second birthday. Continue reading “Birthdays – Vivian and Rebecca”