Jemima Puddleduck and Flower Daisy came into our lives one morning near Easter when a tiny little girl (who is now a lean and limber almost-tween) wriggled with excitement en route to Orscheln Farm & Home. We'd checked with some family farms, and none had ducklings ready to go given the holiday. We found the "straight run" (meaning, nobody was vouching for their gender) of three-day old duckies bustling around under heat lamps, and we loaded up all the requisite items (heat lamp, feeder, ... View Post
My Summer Reading List
It's time - the first day of summer (or, as I prefer to think of it, Midsummer's Eve). I intended to marry Fred as close as possible to that date, but it just wasn't happening in 1999. So, June 19 it was - and we've just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. We're heading off with my sister Jo and Geoff, the man who tolerates her, on summer vacation the week before school resumes in August. Geoff's family has an amazing set of old family homes on the Chain of Lakes near Waupaca, Wisconsin. ... View Post
