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Dude pooped IN OUR COOP.

A vivid, continuous dream

This one found me at exactly the right time…

Be good anyway…

A Sci-Fi Short

From the Hillbilly MFA: A world building lesson from a spy.

From the Hillbilly MFA: I accidentally read three apocalyptic novels in a row — Groff, Heller, McCarthy. Three different takes. Three different fates. All hit home.

A unique voice breaths life into the apocalypse

From the Hillbilly MFA: Voice is hard to define but you know when you hear it. In Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars, I heard it.

From the Hillbilly MFA: Writing experts say flashbacks kill tension. Lauren Groff spent much of a novel proving them wrong. The reasons she pulled it off are worth emulating.

I love a good space western. And this is a good one.

Six months ago I found a Bald-Faced Hornet nest in the woods and kept quiet about a second one over the chicken coop — didn't want to jinx it. Well. They made it.

A juvenile bear kept visiting the chicken coop. I had two options: sit in the dark with an air horn waiting for a bear that might never show, or find a remote solution. I like sleep. So I rigged a tripwire.

October on the Ridge means changing colors, mild weather, and bears getting fat before winter. We've got a 400+ pound regular making his rounds. We've also got a juvenile with an unhealthy interest in the chicken coop — and my coffee.

We've been trying to grow lion's mane mushrooms on the Ridge for years. Multiple totems on two different properties going back six years. Then, after almost 18 months of waiting and trying not to obsess, they arrived. Worth it.

Baby chickens!!!

Don’t count your hornets before they hatch…