Category Archives: Animal/Vegetable/Mineral

After TPLO: Humans in training…

Posted on May 20, 2023 by polloplayer

After four long weeks on high alert, we thought we’d mastered the TPLO recovery situation. This is not to say we were enjoying it. The level of vigilance required for keeping our sweet but spirited Lily under “confinement” is something … Continue reading →

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It’s all fun and games until #TPLO

Posted on April 29, 2023 by polloplayer

We’ve never had a dog like Lily. Any Golden Retriever is the best dog in the world, but our Lily came with an extra helping of oomph. Little did we realize when we brought that sweet puppy home that we … Continue reading →

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When Beauty became a Beast.

Posted on January 7, 2023 by polloplayer

Here we are, almost fourteen years into flock keeping and still learning. Sometimes the hard way. When we brought these two precious ones home, we thought broody Willa would be their mama. But Willa wasn’t having it. That was our … Continue reading →

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Thwack.

Posted on October 1, 2022 by polloplayer

It began in August. Raining acorns. Hundreds of them a day. I was briefly hopeful, having a vague memory that when the oaks drop their acorns early, it signals a harsh winter. I’m all for it raining acorns if that … Continue reading →

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Feathers, unruffled.

Posted on September 14, 2022 by polloplayer

So. Much. Chicken drama! There have been a lot of ruffled feathers – especially mine – as Willa hit the two month mark on being broody with no end in sight. Not to mention the continued ferrying of the two … Continue reading →

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Wild Kingdom.

Posted on July 23, 2022 by polloplayer

It had been a typical day. All the usual minutiae with a highlight of a major plumbing crisis under the kitchen sink. Our cocktail reading hour was mercifully upon us at long last and the CE decided the week-old baby … Continue reading →

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Be careful what you wish for.

Posted on July 16, 2022 by polloplayer

Willa and I had one thing in common. We both wanted baby chicks. Well, at least I thought she did. She’s been glued to the nest for a few weeks, ferociously broody. Ferocious being the operative word here, by the … Continue reading →

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Lettuce give thanks.

Posted on July 2, 2022 by polloplayer

I dare you to be unhappy in a garden where sunflowers grow. This year’s garden has been a huge improvement over last year’s first effort. There is a saying, “Garden as though you will live forever”, but the realists among … Continue reading →

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Getting our buzz on.

Posted on April 23, 2022 by polloplayer

It wasn’t long after the initial pandemic lockdowns that I stepped outside and found a man and a woman in what appeared to be hazmat suits thrashing around the olive trees in front of our house. My first thought was … Continue reading →

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Trying to just let grow…

Posted on April 16, 2022 by polloplayer

Is there anything more utterly absorbing, endlessly fascinating and maddeningly annoying? And no, I am not talking about my husband here (although hmmm I suppose I could be…) I am talking about my fledgling garden, the one that went nowhere … Continue reading →

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