Tonight is a Full Moon – Full Pink Moon, to be precise. Another lunar cycle gone, another week, and two more friends fallen by the wayside. Beloved Bunny Herring, after a long life of 97 years filled with adventures, is “off to Wonderland”, departing from her Old Schoolhouse at Rockford Farm, on to whatever comes […]

To continue catching up with the blog, I will begin by confessing that Eddy is in serious disgrace. TWICE last week, he bolted. The first time, we had just returned from an errand. I opened the door of the car, missed his leash, and he bolted toward the east woods. He was gone. Luckily, he

April is so hectic, and proceeding so quickly, that I am going to break the blog in half, as I catch up again. This picture of turkeys in the pasture looks like April days running past… I left off blogging just before Harry went into the hospital for a final (we hope) heart procedure. His

Ah, it is April, Eliot’s “cruelest month”, and we are losing too many friends. John Stoeckley’s departure last Thursday, March 28, leaves a particularly wrenching absence. His obituary can be read here https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/stltoday/name/john-stoeckley-obituary?id=54754777 We met John and his beloved Karen when we moved to Pike County in 1990, and have been good friends ever since.

Spring is well and truly here, and I have more or less recovered from a short illness that was thankfully not Covid. Life has been crazy, as seems routine now, so although I was miserable, it was a treat to be isolated upstairs (with Eddy) for two days. While we are on the subject of