Stable Food: Easy Salty and Crunchy Candy
Last year I meant to make some of the almond bark treats that my aunt and mom and I used to make when I was a kid. (Hint: Cover a few big marshmallows with melted almond bark, pile them together and tell your kid it’s “reindeer poop”. Bonus points if...
Sweet and Salty Candy Bites
Print Recipe Sweet and Salty Candy Bites These sweet and salty candy bites are easy to make and addictive to eat. Course Dessert Prep Time 5 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Passive Time 90 minutes Servings pieces Ingredients 1/4 cup dry roasted peanuts1/2 can lightly...Care and Feeding of a House Duck
When our house duck was the only one of his clutch to hatch, my mom gave him the name SuperDuck, since he must have had super powers to make it through. I’m not sure about that, but the name has stuck. SuperDuck goes outside and gets to enjoy the weather during...Practice Compassion (Musical Practice)
One of the hardest things I find as someone who is coming back to playing the clarinet after a hiatus of about 20 years is to be compassionate with myself. I remember how easy it seemed, how I could hit the high notes and had the lung capacity to play through the long...Winter Preparedness For Bearded Dragons
After weeks of amusement as my friends in Iowa received winter storm after winter storm, this weekend it’s going to be our turn. Right now the forecast keeps wobbling between those two dreaded words “winter mix” and snow. Neither one is pretty, but...Writing Advice: How Do You Juggle It All?
There’s no doubt that horse people have to juggle their barn goals, horse’s needs, with their families and job. We lament over how little time we get to ride or how little time we get to spend at the barn. It seems like life always has something in the...
My Favorite View (Sunday Horses)
My favorite time of the day is feeding time. Here are my “girls” Fortune (senior mare on the left), and her “filly”, Firefly (will be 5 next April) enjoying their lunch of soaked alfalfa pellets with a little 12% sweet feed. Fortune started...Parrot Plans
There’s a brand new floor stand for parrots sitting in my office cabin, still in its box. When we moved here, I had grand plans of using my travel cage and taking Braynon, my pionus, out to the office cabin where he wouldn’t have to worry about cats and...
Review & Book Spotlight: Conversion by Maria Hammarblad
Review Conversion by Maria Hammarblad is one of those science fiction stories that sinks the reader into the world, carries the reader along, and never lets go until the end. The twists and turns, not just in the main character, but also in the secondary...
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