Miss Banana Head Turns Ten

It seems like only last year when we were celebrating Miss Banana Head’s ninth birthday.  And look, here it is, the end of February and she’s already ten!
Finding just the perfect gift for Banana is such a challenge.  I spend nearly the whole year sweating over what to do for her.  But I think I [...]

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Woman With a Past…

A while back…a good while back…Strawberry Lane tagged me.  Not with the usual ‘list all those stupid things about yourself that we’ve all be listing for the past umpteen years’ virus, but with a photo tag, where I am to post old photos of myself.  As it so happens, my parents recently sold their home [...]

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What Does the Little Piggie Say?

Jet and Pokey share a stall and paddock.  They don’t need to, but they seem to be quite content and therefore, I’m not going to mess with the arrangement.  Pokey was fine with Firecracker as a room mate as well, but Jet has a habit of busting into Bessie’s stall with the lambs in order [...]

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Is There A Prettier Sight?

Is there anything more beautiful than a big pile of gravel freshly delivered to your barn?
 
Well, maybe the tractor that’s shoveling the gravel that’s just been delivered to your barn…
 
…or the tractor’s driver who’s operating the bucket to shovel the gravel that’s just been delivered to your barn…
 
Then there’s that big post waving in your [...]

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There’s a Mouse in my House!

I shall call this, “Death of a Chocolate Bar”. 
“Hey, who ate the Snicker’s bar?”  City Boy asked.  He looked me straight in the eye, saying, “I know it couldn’t have been you, because you just told me you were going on a diet.”
“That’s right,”  I said, “I am!”
“Don’t look at me,” both kids said in [...]

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