One for the Road

One more set of short stories from Zen Mountain before I head into my first surgery for my eyes. The Sunday Post should come back from Hiatus in November 2020

Guess whose comin’ to? Breakfast?

With Spring comes new babies on Zen..as well as a few old friends. Nurseries We have elk nursery herds as well as the deer nursery groups. We know Limpy's coyote pack has new babies trying out their singing voices... even if we can't hear them over the big kids. Bunny popped by to let us...

Working with Zen’s Spring weather

Earth,Wind, and Rain, keeping us hopping on Zen this Spring. Working outdoors this Spring While so many are going crazy counting holes in their ceiling tiles, we are working outdoors, weather permitting. Rain has come through a few times, wetting Zen's Summit down for us.. completely wiping out any and all efforts at keeping the...

A quiet Easter

a little over a week into seclusion with Ma now. I had no idea that today was Easter until Ma told me yesterday. Things have been a little weird, right?  Even before I opted out a week ago Thursday trying to keep track of things was tough with everything everywhere by everyone is about the...

Springing Forward

.................ok..It was more of a moan this morning... Setting the clocks ahead an hour threw us off a bit. I think it is more Knowing that the time is an hour ahead ....  Crap! It's 4am..( friggin' 3am actually)...stupid time change... .............  Crap! It's 5am already ( flippin' 4am really) I better get up....But it's...

Limpin’ with the pack

Limpy's pack has been almost a constant this week as they make their rounds, keeping an eye out for the new kids on the block. Limpin' with the Pack I mentioned last week that Limpy; himself,  is even running with the kids these pre-spring days. It wasn't until I looked at the pics that I...

Ma’s new Shawl Design: The Secret Meadow

Ma finished up her new shawl design today as I began the post...Not that I was rushing her or anything.. Winter is coming closer to its end as we finish up the last week of February. We still could easily get a winter storm with some teeth but at least it can only last so...

Calling All Hummers

Hummie has been calling the family Back to the Homestead the last couple days..but more on that in a bit.. Blustery but green This winter has been extremely mild so far and doesn't look too bad for the next few days. We only had a couple weeks this winter that really looked like winter...knock on...

Time between snow shovel and the hoe

Winter has been kind so far this year.. knock on wood. between the Snow and garden time For Ma; the spinning wheels call to her. Mama wheel; a 1970 castle that Ma uses for most of her spinning,, which is mostly Shetland , another castle that is basically styled after Mama wheel which Ma uses...

Our unexpected House Guest

We ended up practicing Hummie Health Care for a few days this last week. Fortunately the story has a happy ending after a beginning that looked pretty grim. The little hummer Monday, I was sitting in my office working on a guitar build I had started before losing the site in my right eye back...