My Way of Living [05/12/16] 

  • Lavishly Lilac

    Lilacs were always a treasured shrub around our house. My Mom loves them, and one year she asked for a white lilac for Mother's Day. We went around to all the nursery's to find her the perfect white lilac, finally choosing a good specimen. After we gave it to her, and it was all planted we had to wait until the next year to enjoy …

  • The unspoken rules of blogging

    Remember being a kid, your parents, teachers, and others were always correcting your behaviour. Take your hands out of your pockets, stand up straight, chew with your mouth closed, those were the little things that we as kids were constantly reminded not to do. Learning to share, to be nice, to say good things even if we didn’t al…

  • The great escape, Phil’s a bad influence

    Who would have thought that Phil the pheasant would be such a bad influence on the Boo. It wasn’t until the other night when Phil was perched on the chain link fence in the back yard, and a curious Bootsie went to see what this creature was that we had a problem.Bad Phil, not only are you running around with 4 hens, [you shameless…