Now it is the well pump that broke. I thought for a minute we were out of water... It was just the pump. It was all cover in iron. There's lot of iron in the water around here! We replaced it, at a dear cost, but now we can finally water our vines. Un malheur […]

Our Generator broke. Both the exhaust pipes in the generator broke, so with friends who can weld and some imagination, we fixed it. We used a 90° iron elbow for gas line. Can't live without it when off grid. Notre Générateur est cassé. Les deux tuyaux d'échappement dans le générateur ont cassés. Nous avons donc […]

New Mexico Cliff Dwellings: Gina, her brother and girl friend, and I went to Silver City for the day and decided to go to the famous cliff dwellings along the Gila River. For thousands of years, groups of nomadic people used the caves of the Gila River as temporary shelter. In the late 1200's, people […]

Flowers in the vineyard: We have flowers in our vineyard...colorful flowers. That's good for our bees. Fleurs dans le vignoble: Nous avons des fleurs dans notre vignoble...des fleurs colorées. C'est très bon pour nos abeilles.

Some deer visiting. The other evening a herd of does came to visit. There were two dozens of them with young ones. Most passed behind the house, in front of our windows, but some went in front to the guest house. Diva was good. She didn't bark, but she look at them and if outside, […]

Trip to Santa-Ana Wildlife Preserve We spent two days in Santa-Ana Wildlife Preserve, at the tip of Texas, on the Rio Grande. From the shore we could observe a Mexican farm on the other side of the Rio Grande. We wanted to see the park before Homeland Security enclosed it behind a giant wall of […]

Trip to San-Antonio, TX We took a small vacation and drove to San-Antonio, TX. It was a very long straight drive (>500 miles) on a pretty flat landscape. We spent a couple of days there and went down to Santa-Ana Wildlife Preserve at the very tip of Texas. After two days there we drove back […]

New addition to the family. On Tuesday the 23rd of January 2018, four kids are born from our goat Lakota. Three boys and a little girl. All are black and white like their father. One might have some brown like his mom. Both the mom and the kids are going good, even knowing the kids […]

Coyotes warning As we are dog sitting Gina’s mom’s little dog, Gina is taking her out every morning at sunrise. The other day, there was a coyote waiting by the doorway... for the little dog to come out. Then, I take the little dog out at night for a pee-pee before nite-nite... and same thing... […]

I dreamed of a white Christmas... ....and here it is. We had snow on the Chiricahuas last night. It's white, it's cold, but it's beautiful. Unfortunately, it might not last long. The days are too hot for that. J'ai rêvé d'un Noel blanc... ....et voila, c'est arrivé. Nous avons eu de la neige sur les […]