Desert Survivor

  Ready for a tale of woe? (Some of it may actually be true.) Once upon a time a little calf was born on a dark and stormy night. (A...

 This year we just had a quick visit to the county fair. With busy schedules and school, we didn't manage to enter anything, but we di...

Last week I had the opportunity to climb several mountains as part of the GLORIA project , a world-wide project that is looking at climate...

 We start school early, in mid-August. Desert Boy wanted it to start even earlier, as he really missed his friends. So when we went to bac...

When it was apparent that our apricot tree was going to have an abundant crop this year, I prepared to make some jam. I had plenty of bott...