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Updating the JPW-isms

March 15, 2010: Minds wander because they can.

March 17, 2010: Weird people didn't plan to be.

March 19, 2010: When it is all said and done - never happens.

March 22, 2010: Your average sheep would balk in the queues demanded of airline passengers.

March 24, 2010: "In the Beginning..."  Whew!

March 26, 2010: At most, God might get bemused.

March 29, 2010: Being grateful for infrastructure is nerve wracking.

March 31, 2010: Data and decisions are strained bedfellows.

April 2, 2010: Don't take sleeping well for granted.

April 5, 2010: Giving someone a haircut is often a lesson about the consequences  of over compensating.

April 7, 2010: If you fret a bit when you can't feel where north is, you're more likely to have been raised in quasi-rural places.  Or not...

April 9, 2010: Metaphors are not fancy comparisons; they are essential for simple explanations of nearly everything.

April 12, 2010: Seeing your city from an airplane can make you sad.

April 14, 2010: Teenagers are equipped perfectly for frightening parents.

April 16, 2010: Try comprehending a million or so light years.

April 19, 2010: We require a license for barbering, but not for parenting.

April 21, 2010: Work expands - period.

April 23, 2010: Planned fun usually isn't.

April 26, 2010: Good deeds can be known only to the doer.

April 28, 2010: Everyone laments being done unto by the "theys"; and, each of us is someone's "they".

April 30, 2010: The end is clearly in sight only from rear view mirrors.

May 3, 2010: Accomplishments are residuals of pursuing passions.

May 5, 2010: Artists can chase themselves without tiring.

May 7, 2010: Building things with your hands evokes primitive needs and satisfactions.

May 10, 2010: Creeks and trees sing to each other.

May 12, 2010: Dissonance will find you.

May 14, 2010: Doing things that earlier amazed us should help us put future amazements in their place.

The April that Was

Some pictures from last month.


First, a couple pics of the animals hamming it up.  Ms. Kitty:

Rammy!  We recently sheared Rammy.  It was mildly traumatic for both the shearing and the sheared.  There was blood.  There was cussing.  He kicked me straight off my feet a couple times, and even managed to bowl over one of the walls to the shearing pen.  Sheep are strong damnit!  Try getting one on its side.  He's dead weight.

Ultimately we did get him sheared.  Needless to say we will NOT be entering Rammy in the Darke County Fair.  But the job is done, which is most important, because Rammy was baking underneath all that wool.  Yes, he looks like we ran him through a wood chipper.  So enjoy Rammy pre-shearing, it'll be awhile before he looks normal again.

Billy, the newest Angora.  He's a buck, and his only job on the farm is to eat and make little goats.  Obviously he pleased somebody in his previous life.

Toby and Billy:

Penny!  The source of Jessica's forthcoming line of products:

Lotus, the ridiculously friendly Angora doe

The lilac bushes!  These babies made the whole farm smell incredible.

Random shot of the milking parlor door at sunset:

This tree sits at the northwest corner of the property: