Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

Rabbits don't have a very good reputation with Mrs. F.G.  Our first summer here they nested under the shed, and once that was blocked of...

Both at our last home and here the brilliant blue Dwarf Iris is the first flower to bloom.  And it opened its petals magically yesterday mor...

 A mere week ago today almost the street sweeper came down the street!  The street sweeper is now my sign of spring, ahead of the Robins, wh...

With the addition of the antibiotics I'm taking, my pill regime has got complicated enough to tax my simple mind!  It sometimes seems li...

Yes, I've got pneumonia. It started on Sunday with 10 hours of violent vomitting, not the usual start for pneumonia.  I kept trying to t...

We headed west and north up off the well-drained flat sand lands around Clarksburg that the apples like best, and came to this view.  You ca...

The other day we headed out for a drive over to Thornbury and came back, by the back roads.  It wasn't a long drive, but it was nice.  W...