Category: Barnyard

  • Mr. Squirrel, Get Out of My Greenhouse!

    Mr. Squirrel, Get Out of My Greenhouse!

    Will Rogers is usually credited with saying, “Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” By that measure, this fall made me very wise. I have the half-eaten beet greens to prove it. Fall is here Around the time I started wearing a jacket to the coop in the…

  • 5 Things I Learned From Babysitting Pigs

    I knew pigs were smart. I knew they were messy. I knew they liked to eat, which is the one thing everybody knows about pigs and the one thing that turns out to be a dramatic understatement. But knowing about pigs and standing in a pen with two of them leaning on my little legs…