Smokey Mountain Breakdown

I'm trying to get back on schedule. You know the one where I post the next day's post at midnight. Right now, I am roundly congratu...

Peek-a-Boo Peach Brandy This photo is a repost from 2005. I thought on this cold drizzly day, that it might be a good time to talk about th...

I'm actually very happy with the new site. It looks much more tasteful than before. Less garish. And I know it must seem weird that I...

It's been a brutally cold and bitter morning. Snow and sleet have been falling intermittently . I made the decision to keep Black Doe i...

I don't have much for you today. It is bone chillingly cold here today. The snow started driving in around 3 a.m. and it was really vic...

This will be the last "kidding" post for this year. All of my girls have now delivered. Today was difficult. If Betsy, the Goat ...

The day started out leisurely enough. I finished reading Ralph Steadman's Joke's Over that my best friends, Therese and Lorna, sent...

Southern Fried Chicken on Rice with Milk Gravy To celebrate my freakishly low cholesterol and triglyceride values on my recent bloodwork, I ...

I got that term from my Goat Yoda, Betsy. Basically, it's when all the does start to drop at the same time. Mine has officially starte...

This is the post I was going to do yesterday before Blinkin' popped those three babies out. This post was going to be another installmen...

Well, she finally did it! Blinkin' just gave birth to three lovely doe kids. One is a lovely dun with points, one is spotted (a little ...

As we grow older, the epiphanies become more tangible and fewer in number. Perhaps that is because in childhood, we often have epiphanies t...

What can I say? I just love where I live. Enjoy your day.

(Disclaimer!!! I have some really smart people who read my blog. Way smarter than I am. I want to make clear that this story is mostly tr...

Bourbon Pecan Pie Pecan (pronounced Pee-Can, thank you very much) Pie must be one of the most readily identified desserts in the South. You...

Yesterday was market day. Every third Wednesday I make my way into town to pay my bills and buy a few groceries, dog and goat food for the m...

I went out to the porch tonight to grab a stick of wood. Not that it is terribly needed, but I like to keep the woodstove going on low sin...

Published on: It was like finally finding a precious rare book that I had searched for half my life. But when I finally had it in my hands ...

Friend Scott and I had lunch at Carver's Apple Barn. The orchards are so lovely in winter. I love the look of the trees. This donkey ...

Okay, probably not one of my better efforts...but I really didn't spend that much time on it. Working for Weekly World News has always ...