• Chickens,  Everything Else

    The Changing Seasons – January 2016 in Review

    In thinking about Cardinal’s monthly photo challenge, I anticipated doing what I did last year by going back through the month’s photos and trying my best to not include every single one of them in my review because 1) there is generally so much that happens each month and 2) because so many of my photos make me so happy…

  • Everything Else

    The Changing Seasons – November and December in Review

    Well, I’ve gone and done it again!  I’ve let time get away from me again! And so, with just a few days left in the year, I’ve decided to play a bit of catch up by combining my monthly reviews of November and December into one Changing Seasons post.  Lucky you, you get two posts for the price of one…

  • Everything Else,  Grow,  Harvest

    The Changing Seasons – October in Review

    October marks, for me, the official beginning of Fall. The slide from warm days and comfortable evenings quickly gives way to bipolar weather patterns (hot, toasty days followed by very cold nights…torrential downpours with hail and flooding, followed by crispy dry weeks on end) and, inevitably, the first fire of the season (which was especially exciting this year because of…

  • Chickens,  Everything Else,  Grow,  Harvest

    The Changing Seasons – August and September in Review

    If you’re keeping track, you might have noticed that I skipped my monthly reflection for August…and you might even notice that my reflection for September is a full two weeks late… Geez… Yeah, the past few months have been a whirlwind of work, property and animal upkeep, and…oh yeah! the planning, prepping for and actual celebration of our marriage! So,…

  • Everything Else

    The Changing Seasons – July in Review

    July brought with it some much needed rain and many, many partly cloudy days, which may not seem like a big deal to many of you, but it a very big deal here in the high desert of northern New Mexico! Here we’re used to drought conditions and sweltering heat through July and into August. We’re used to praying for…

  • Everything Else

    The Changing Seasons – June in Review

    Maybe it’s the excitement of summer being officially upon us…with all of it’s hot sweaty-ness, fun potential, long days and short nights…but it’s flying by at a rapid pace and it’s all I can do to slow myself down a bit to enjoy the moments, the flashes in time, before they’ve raced past, on their way elsewhere. The extreme heat…