Sorry, folks; I’m having to shut the blog down. I tried, but I’m so overwhelmed that I just can’t do it anymore. My life is as delicious as ever, but the line between possible and impossible is becoming quite distinct. Maybe someday, when things calm down, I can regroup and try again. But for now …

I’m sure the gardening books are right when they advise us to test the pH and plant this plant early and that plant later and rotate the crops and don’t put these plants together etc. etc. But I’m impatient. If I’m in charge of the garden I put the seeds in the ground on one …

Here’s half of next year’s heat. It’s 60 feet long, 4.5 feet high (average), and 15″ deep or so, and that pencils out to 2.5 cord, or about half of what I’ll need next winter. It looks like a lot of wood, but last year we started burning in September and we burned a long …

Once when I was about 10 years old, I awoke very early on a Saturday morning in June. We had just moved into our new house in Rexburg, Idaho, where my father had recently been hired as a professor at Ricks College (now BYU—Idaho). No one else was awake. The sun was not even up, …

Here’s our greenhouse with the surviving warm-weather plants that will remain there all season—peppers, watermelon, anything that can’t live outside. At the bottom center you can just make out the chipmunk trap.
chipmunk (chip’ munk) n. Any of several small striped terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias and Eutamias; has cheek pouches and a light and …

By the way, for all those I may have offended with my unflattering portait of television, I am sorry only that I didn’t show more tact. Some of you may actually like television. But my true opinion of the medium is that it’s offensive, unclean, obnoxious, contemptible, odious, invidious, revolting, distasteful, low, foul, corrupt, bad, …

Read the following out loud. An overly dramatic voice is helpful, and your imagination can supply the frenetic video footage:
FOLLOW the HARROWING SAGA of the FLUKINGIJIGiGJER’S CHICKENS as they RAISE SEVEN CHICKS to ADULTHOOD. WILL THEY SURVIVE? WHAT about the FLOCK of BIZARRE DUCKS SPOTTED among PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD HENS? WHY did the HENS SUDDENLY START …

I went down with Jess this morning to take some pictures with our camera which is just begging to be put out of its misery. Jess let out all 23 poultry, fed and watered them, and gathered eggs, while I wandered around taking pictures. Usually I’m upstairs studying scriptures at this time in the morning, …

If you’ll share my blog with other people, I’ll post regularly. Maybe not as often as I have, but …regularly. Since some of you seem to enjoy my posts, I’ll try to work up something interesting. Our lives are certainly interesting, and it never lets up. Our little chicks have graduated to the chicken hotel, …

Since since I received the call to serve as branch president, my workload has gone from merely insane to Beyond Mortal Comprehension. Things have gotten so crazy in our lives that I’m considering any break of responsibility, no matter how small, to lighten my load.
That includes this blog.
Here, for example, is yesterday.
5-6 am: arise, run …