by rakeeter 
Our neighbors had a little get-together for the Abster’s volleyball team yesterday evening, a perfect evening for it. I got the yard and the grass court mowed so the place, at least that around 2005, looked pretty good. When I staggered back to my lair the fair maidens where playing volleyball, having stuffed themselves with hot dogs and needing to make room for somores. Continue reading “Oh mow is me”
by rakeeter 
After harvesting some tadpoles out at Wildcat Bluff Nature Center last year and putting them in the pond, we have a nice crop of small leopard frogs. It surprised me that we did because only six or seven of the tadpoles seemed to make it to the frog stage by the end of last summer. Furthermore, I think it takes a couple of years for a leopard frog to reach sexual maturity. Continue reading “Froggy mystery”
by rakeeter 
Greetings from the SA rain forest. We went much of the week without seeing the sun while getting a couple of inches of rain. That is significant for this part of the world and I think the rain was fairly widespread, just maybe not at the same time. Continue reading “Shrooms”
by rakeeter 
You may recall a couple of weeks ago in a tournament in Hereford Abigail’s Rebel volleyball team fell in a squeaker to Amarillo High in the final. Then last weekend the Sandies sent the Rebels home from another tournament in Dumas in two games. So it was with no little satisfaction that the Abster and company dealt them Sandies a solid thumping in their own gym Tuesday evening. They made hash out of them in two games and danced on under their scoreboard. Continue reading “Retribution”
by rakeeter 
It was a quiet week around SA, seemed to me. Last Thursday’s rain greened up the place a little. There is rain in the forecast and if we were to get another half inch plus the place would green up nicely. We’re still short of moisture but we don’t need a lot to get by. Continue reading “Quiet week”