Ursa Major: Big Dipper, Black Bears, and the Night Sky

                The Big Dipper, Ursa Major Constellation

Ursa Major, as it looks in the night sky: Tonight, I will go out and find the Bear, on Black Bear Farm!!

         I had an opportunity to name the speck of land around our house when I placed my first seed order, in spring of 2007. My last real garden was in Bossardsville, where in very hospitable soil,  the little transplants I started from seed grew rapidly. After dinner, when the hot summer day had cooled, Dale and I would spend an hour or so weeding the garden, with iced teas or vodka tonics in hand.

Kathy Mae's Chickens

 This is Kathy Mae, raised on Pond Hole, "down the road" from where I grew

Kathy Mae

Handicapped helen, Lacks vision and has a Deformed Beak.

up on Turkey Knoll. Kathy is now in Georgia ( note the sunshine and bare arms). She posted these pics and  text exactly the day that Marty and I were shoveling out our 120 foot driveway,  after the fourth major storm in three weeks. Marty has four wheel drive, but my car had been iced in for a week.

Our driveway after we hand cleared it . . .A job well done.

       As Kathy wrote: "We went to the chicken show in Newnan, GA, and got two chickens from a local farmer. Helen was free!"  I noticed Marty out front, shoveling like a banshee. This was curious, as he had acquired a snowblower in September. All winter, he had proudly strutted behind it, humming as he filled the engine, smiling as it did all the work, no, near glowing, as it did all the work!