And yesterday was worth more to me than any diamond one could find. Even though we sometimes plan for wonderful days, and hope it turns out that way; yesterday was planned, and it turned out to be much more rewarding than our first anticipation.

A friend from one of the universities in South Dakota was doing research on burrowing owls, I met her ( Read more... )

A few mornings ago, when Brave was asking to go outside, I opened the door for him, he stopped suddenly and looked at something on the floor of the front porch. I had

some 2x6’s and a roof over what before was just boards, so there is probably half inch cracks between the 2x6’s and also there were cracks in the floor they covered. To the east of the ( Read more... )

Worth reading, be you  Democrat, Republician, Independent, Christian, Non-Believer, or whatever....be sure and read to the very end.

Fw: Words for thought

Quotes by a famous person.  Read them.  Think about them. Then scroll to the very bottom.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth ( Read more... )

From  Introduction to 25th Anniversary of The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

“In a play I wrote in my early thirties, Ideal, the heroine, a screen stars speaks for me when she says: “I want to see, real living, and in the hours of my own days, that glory I create as and illusion. I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who  wants ( Read more... )

Living in a state of in between what once was strength, and is now the strength is only in what is left of my mind willing to do it and the body unwilling to really give in to the command of the brain….

Still, I find joy in living each day, and even though I do not get a lot of things done that I might have on my list, I go about my days in a ( Read more... )

Sunshine and cool, and supposed to be the best day of the week, so I am off to the cabin for most of the day; there are two projects that need attention, so perhaps one of two might be addressed today. Of course the most important one is to try the fish once more; the snow was so deep on the dam, that I was thinking lack of oxygen might have done ( Read more... )

There will be a letter read at the meeting of our Board of Trustee’s and I am wondering why I care? Our town is turning into a junkyard, abandoned vehicles, trash in the ditches, and those of us who have for the all the years I have been here  (coming on fourteen), are getting to the place in our lives when it is time for the younger ones to take ( Read more... )

In all his glory, with a bit of his halo disfigured; I looked out just minutes ago and he was hurrying up the walk and now he is
here trying to tell me a story; all I can make out of it is he was holed up somewhere with one of those drainage things that
has shown up just under his ear; Brave, the Bravest Black Cat in Town has returned.

He makes me

Brave: August 2001-April 2010

One of the good books I read over the years stated: cats always say “hello” but the never say “goodbye”. That seems to be true for most cats, especially those independent ones that prefer spending their time in the great outdoors, and come inside when it is stormy, or really cold, or terribly hot. Brave was such a cat ( Read more... )

“I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map.”    Aldo Leopold

The wild country has nearly disappeared in this area, the really wild, I mean. When I was young, wildness was in the Badlands, now it is a park and has wonderful animals, but no longer a wild ( Read more... )