Carnival of the animals
We’ve had, with apologies to Saint-Saens, a true ‘Carnival of the Animals’ appear on the farm over the years.
We’ve had, with apologies to Saint-Saens, a true ‘Carnival of the Animals’ appear on the farm over the years.
If you have pets then you’ll be well aware of the inexplicable timing of an illness or injury that presents itself just after your local vet’s office closes, or on a Sunday.
And so it was with our cat, Bernie, who always manages to look earnest, even when I caught sight of him straining to empty his bladder in the litter box.
I really must begin playing the lottery. Or at least buying multiple scratch off tickets.
There’s trouble in River City.
Or make that Liquor City.
The chairman of North Carolina’s ABC Commission, who also has the coolest name of any public official, Zander Guy, resigned Friday after a chain of difficulties that have left bare shelves in liquor stores across the state.
Just to prevent this sort of thing from happening, I usually leave the garden hose draped over the water trough.
My dear friend Sharon, who has, for ages, made up a circle of like-minded horse-crazy ladies, has pulled up stakes and is moving out west.
It’s not the sort of thing one brags about, but I sort of look forward to going to my local gas station/mini-mart around this time of year.
They have one of those ubiquitous cappuccino machines that you stick a Styrofoam cup beneath and press a button for it to be filled to the top.
It’s taken ten days of determined attack, but I am glad to report the watermelon has been finished.
From time to time I am asked if I miss performing stand-up, miss the touring, the traveling both domestically and internationally.
Oh, heck no.
However, during those twenty years I would quote George Carlin who liked to say the money he earned was for lugging a suitcase, traveling and living in hotels.
What on earth is that?” I asked Paul, who, coming in from the garden, was carrying what looked to be an enormous, curved yellow club.
“It’s an Armenian cucumber,” he said, depositing it with a thud on the kitchen island.
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