Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: My Country Life
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A rainy morning. I can hear it, a steady hum. I can see it through the window, a steady stream cascading through the hole in the gutter where one day there will be a pipe diverting the rain to the pond. One day. There aren't many mornings I decide not to walk. Days of snow and ice…
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My arms are speckled red with scratches and small bumps, and a band-aid comforts a blister at the crook of my thumb, despite the gloves I wore to protect my hands. The irresistible sunshine convinced me to ignore my 'inside' work and, instead, grab a rake and get back to clearing a field where I envision a…
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Ah, we're such bad "parents"…here we are on the coldest morning since 1996 – it got down in the teens last night – and we had barely a spoonful of seed left for Frankie's breakfast. I gave him a couple of nuggets from Max's canned dog food to tide him over – he loves those!…
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"To love our neighbors as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality." – John Locke Dennis lived in Long Hollow first – years and years before anyone else thought it was appealing to live down a dirt road. He had…
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Christmas is the season of joy, but it's easy to let that joy get buried by to-do lists, exhaustion and financial stress. Yesterday I re-discovered a sure-fire way to bust that joy back out of the rubble…skipping! I really have no idea why the notion to skip entered my brain, but there I was on our…
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This morning I slept later than usual…I reset my alarm three times and finally just turned it off. Eventually, I remembered all of the things I needed to do before work and rolled out of bed, just as the sun was coming up. I stepped through my morning routine, piddling with little tasks. I knew eventually I would have…
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Charly stopped eating last night. This morning he was too weak to go for a walk…even though Tom had the day off and would be joining us. So I stayed behind and petted him until Tom and Max returned, not wanting him to be alone. I had hoped it wouldn't come to this. I had…
Long Hollow 