Today is La fête des Mères. The kids work very hard making things at school. On Sunday morning, they can hardly wait to give me their creation and smile and giggle their way through the poem they’ve been working hard all week to memorize. Minty has a great Gascon accent. This means when she says, [...]
Archive for May, 2011
You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks and other little bits
Posted: May 26, 2011 in family, farmingTags: dogs, family, farming
( photo by B. Curtis ) I had heard that Tosca has had a run in or two with chickens. We’ve always been careful with her around the chickens. I bring her out with me and make sure she learns about their existence. The chickens are getting a little nutty in CoopaCabana. They totally love [...]
Today I went to an artisanal fair with Lucy and her friend from school (That’s artisan not artesian). I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a lot like Eugene’s Saturday Market. Let’s just say there were a lot of crystals, yoga, organic this-n-that’s, foot massage and many artisans selling and [...]
I’m getting my video capabilities going. I mean sure, watching cows move is like watching paint dry and grass grow, but it’s what we do. Everyday the cows get a new slice of yummy, green munchables and they get all giddy working their way through the best bits. The cows patiently wait for Brent to [...]
If I didn’t have a wee baby, I had all the time in the world and money was no problem, I would build a three-wire perimeter fence with big ass vine posts spaced ten meters apart. Zap the top two and ground the bottom. After personally slamming in hundreds of posts I would sit back [...]
It’s that time of year again where I partake in my n’th annual 29th birthday. If you ask Lucy how old I am, she’ll quickly respond with “Mommy’s 29! [giggle giggle] that’s a joke!” She’ll also tell you how old I really am and verify it by yelling across the party/room/store with “ISN’T THAT RIGHT, [...]
Me: Hey! We have a broody chicken! Brent: Cool! How many eggs is she sitting on? Me: Eight. Brent: oo. That’ll be cool. Me: well, you can’t count your … you know the rest The last couple of months have opened up a lot of time to get work done on the farm. Cows, fences, [...]
It was a day yesterday. Busy with many, many things animals, children, baby, crazy singing electrician man (don’t go changin’ Mark!), people calling, important mail to ready, Brent away working his magic with French bureaucracy and our neighbor the mayor driving up in her camionnette with a bucket to show me. She pulls me over [...]
… notice there’s no ‘p’ in it. I’m not a big fan of pools when there are little ones running about. All sorts of safety requires me to sit down for two hours and play lifeguard. I love watching the kids play, but I prefer to let them run around discovering their own fun and [...]
