Tag: family
member name: Mary H.
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December 30, 2008 12:38 PM EST --
In Houston they’re serious about FFA. My suburban niece is raising a steer, a Black Angus named Marvin. On Christmas day I begged to accompany her to the barn, an open-air shelter the size of an airplane . . .
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February 09, 2008 01:23 PM EST --
At holidays, and special birthdays we sometimes used to get to eat on my grandmother's Haviland china. It was simple, elegant, white with a delicate pink ramble of roses.
This china came originally . . .
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November 15, 2008 11:29 PM EST --
Last week my ride-share buddy, Tina, was under the weather and I rode to town alone. It made me realize how much I enjoy our friendly chatter on the way to work. It's nice, too, to have someone to . . .
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September 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
I didn't have high hopes for the eggs L.S. and I snuck under the Tawnies. Twice last week the first Ta wny managed to somehow carry an egg about 5 feet away from the nest. Both eggs were smelly when . . .
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February 06, 2009 11:40 AM EST --
The ad in the newspaper said: You have 3 Choices
1. Connect your older TV to a digital-to-analog converter box; or
2. Buy a digital television (a TV with a built-in digital tuner); or
3. Subscribe . . .
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November 23, 2008 10:14 PM EST --
I've always loved our windmill. I remember climbing the rusty ladder toward the twirling blades when I was thirteen or fourteen. I was halfway up when my grandfather tore out of the house, yelling . . .
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January 17, 2009 01:40 PM EST --
My book, A Year in Birdland , is now available on my Etsy site . Just thought you'd like to know.
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October 15, 2009 09:13 AM EDT --
So much rain in Birdland, I wonder when they will be able to bring in the corn. A late sunrise and over cast skies make for dark mornings and shadowy chicken duties. It's not that I'm wishing . . .
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July 14, 2008 10:38 AM EDT --
It's been an emotional summer, full of family gatherings. This week I wanted to write to my Aunt Anna Mary to thank her for caring for her uncle, my great-uncle, Francis, who we lost last week. I'm . . .
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July 28, 2008 09:12 AM EDT --
This week in Birdland I've learned a little about the empty nest while L.S. was away at camp. It's really just a preview; he won't even be away for a whole week. Not like when I dropped my . . .
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September 07, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
It's dark out and the chickens are in bed. The ducks go in on their own now, and sleep in the chicken coop, but they intimidate the chickens, who roost up on the roof, and I have to go out and catch . . .
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July 31, 2009 12:46 PM EDT --
Ghost lilies are haunting Birdland. I noticed them blooming in town last week, and knew ours were not far behind. Do you know about Ghost Lilies? They are the pale pink wild cousins to Amaryllis, and . . .
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October 06, 2008 12:52 AM EDT --
In Autumn more than any other time I'm keenly aware of how quickly the seasons pass. Maybe because I can look back over the summer and see all of the berries I didn't pick, all of the chores left . . .
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December 01, 2008 10:24 AM EST --
It's cold this week in Birdland, and it's a trick trying to keep the water thawed out. We have some electric water bowls and a heated pad, but the ducks drink much more water than the chickens . . .
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September 21, 2008 10:20 PM EDT --
I always feel romantic at the corners of the year. I think it is something about standing on the threshold--any threshold. Here we are at the edge of autumn. It's not here yet, but we know it's . . .
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October 13, 2008 12:46 AM EDT --
The days are getting shorter, and the combines are waking from hibernation. They're like elephants, or dinosaurs, aren't they? Slowly grazing across the fields, devouring the browns and russets . . .
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June 14, 2009 11:22 AM EDT --
This column was born of letters to friends. In correspondence, I found myself describing in detail the microcosm of my yard. It seemed like I just had to look out the window or walk out to the bean field . . .
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June 19, 2009 09:06 AM EDT --
This week brought even more rain to Birdland, and a mild tornado shows me the wisdom of folks who do a barn raising in one day. The storm hit early in th e morning with a grass green sky and a wind . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
It’s a sunny day in Birdland, but I need to get something off my chest. I’m tired of the secrecy, the deception, the juggling of half-truths, the panic I get when I realize I’ve left . . .
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July 24, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
In Birdland the sunflowers I planted around the garden coop have grown strong stalks to carry their faces up over the roof of the coop to greet the morning sun. They clear the coop, but are still in the . . .
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