Graham R. Cooper's personal journal about modern-day homesteading at Little Owl Gully.
“Keep It Simple, Stupid”: the KISS rule of philosophy that I’ve often broken. Understandable, I guess, for someone with a headspace capable of overthinking just about anything. But I am getting better at cutting...
Late last spring, June’s sister Karen got cowpats from Little Owl Gully to go on her vegetable patch. Took her no time at all to collect a big sack of them – you could...
Yeah, nah. The willow with branches overhanging power lines didn’t come down in a wind: two contractors employed by our electricity lines company, Alpine Energy, took it down. A windfall, nonetheless. No cost to...
Foraging for walnuts, I’m reminded of a squirrel foraging for acorns. Afterwards we’ll squirrel away the nuts, hers for winter, ours rationed to last a year. Grey squirrels must have had some great food...
“They’ve gone through the fence!” I’d offloaded them from the stock crate and was away unhitching the trailer. June had seen first the heifer, and then the steer follow in the gap where his...
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