Compared to most places in the Commonwealth, this is a very modestly priced place to live. That’s how come we wound up here. We could afford a house and some land, too for less than a tiny condo cost anywhere… Read More ›
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BLACK & WHITE – PETS AND FARM ANIMALS
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Pets and Farm Animals Pets and farm animals, all in black and white. Well, it’s a pretty black & white world we seem to be living in, so why not?
HARVEST AND THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
Autumn dropped by early this year. It’s not the usual Autumn. It just got cold one afternoon dropping from the 70s to the 40s in just a few hours. It stayed that way for a few days. Today it’s warmer… Read More ›
DYSFUNCTIONAL PARENTS – BY ELLIN CURLEY
I’ve recently read two interesting memoirs about mind bogglingly horrific parents who were both malignant narcissists and bat shit crazy. Despite horrible, abusive behavior, the two children who wrote their memoirs spent a good part of their adult lives trying… Read More ›
WHAT WILL BECOME OF OUR VALLEY?
Growing up in what was probably the very last unsullied woodlands in Queens, NY, we used to find arrowheads in the woods. My mother had insisted we buy the wooded property adjacent to our house. It wasn’t connected to the… Read More ›
HORNS: COWS, GOATS, AND SHEEP
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Horns I live in a valley where horned animals also live. Cows and goats, mainly. I found one other kind of horn — in our jeep.That’s all the horns I could find.
CAPITALISM AROUND THE WORLD
In a world that has gotten rather grim, this made me laugh. I’ve seen it before. It made me laugh a couple of years ago, so maybe it’ll make you laugh now. NOTE: CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE FONT: If… Read More ›
THE PRICE OF FOOD, THE COST OF STAYING ALIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
This post started out as a comment to Rich’s piece, but it reminded me of all those years when the Fishery Department in New England begged the fisher-folks to hold back on fishing out the spawning areas. St. George’s banks… Read More ›
HARVESTING THE CORN IN VERMONT – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Harvest Scenes It just happens that I have exactly the right pictures for this challenge. Now, if I can find them …
SHARING MY WORLD AT HARVEST TIME – Marilyn Armstrong
Share Your World 10-14-19 QUESTIONS: Why do we have such trouble telling our loved ones that we love them? Do you have that kind of communication issue with your loved ones? I did have that problem when I was younger, but… Read More ›
SUNFLOWERS BY FARM, ROAD, AND RIVER – Marilyn Armstrong
Sunflowers by the Farm-September 29, 2019 Apparently, the original owners of our favorite farm have sold to a new owner. He’s not a new owner in the sense of being young and looking to make a splash in the local… Read More ›
MARILYN’S FARM – Marilyn Armstrong
I was surprised at how little foliage had “popped.” The Blackstone runs along that road and that usually brings out early foliage. Not this year. I also noticed that the meteorologists have stopped predicting “leafing” areas. Usually they are busy… Read More ›
