Caldwell County
16 Animals Are Watching You: Last Day to Bid on Julia’s Pet Food Paintings
Happy Sunday morning! A guinea hen named Freezy would look good on your wall. Today’s your last chance to bid on Julia’s Pet Food paintings, and every dollar goes to a local animal shelter.
Photo of the Day – Wall Tent Morning
Photo of the Day – Sheree’s Mugs
Photo of the Day – The Season’s Only Pear
Photo of the Day – Wall Tent End of the Day
Photo of the Day – Shoebox Canyon Dawn
Photo of the Day – Mule Polly and Cooter the Prize Cow
Photo of the Day – Evening on the Brushies
Photo of the Day – Black Bear at the Dump
How to Catch a Snake in Your House
A rat snake in the house sounds alarming. Ours turned up tangled in the cookstove.
I was taking a nap when I heard my wife Julia say, “honey, can you come here?” I walked into the kitchen and saw Julia looking at the cookstove. Our cookstove is a two-burner camp stove hooked to a twenty-pound propane tank. It’s black and greasy. I didn’t see anything. Then I saw the black snake next to the pot we boil our coffee in.… Continue reading
Our Place in the Universe
“This is where I most proudly live, in the little cabin under the big night sky.” That’s what Julia wrote after I took the photo above of our cabin on a recent wintry night. You can read the rest of Julia’s beautiful musings over here on her ConsideringAnimals.com blog post.
More about life up Shoe Box Canyon: Around the Homestead.
Johnny the Chicken Slat Man: It Happened in Globe
It happened in Globe.
The man walked up to mule Brick who was tied to a poplar tree and said, “I thought she was loose.”
“She’s not,” I said, “but thanks for checking.”
The man looked tired.
Me: “What do you do for a living?”
Him: “I build chicken slats.”
Me: “What’s that?”
Him: “It’s what chickens lay eggs on and the chickens will always keep laying.”
Me: “Where’s your job?”
Him:… Continue reading
Mule Ride to the Happy Valley Fiddlers Convention
Note: I’m writing to you from a mountain pasture with an internet connection as slim as a cow pie. That means I’ll have to post the full photo essay in parts. Here’s the first part, a glimpse in to our first days on… Continue reading
