Michael Perry's Blog, page 394

Wormy Weirdness

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

Out to collect chicken eggs and shut the coop door the other night after dark and I kept seeing strange sticks lying every which...

Just Like Old Smoky Times

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

We interrupt this vacation to say: the coolest thing on my vacation so far?  Was up visiting my folks when a page went out for a...

Shop Door Open

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer

If, like me, you possess less-than-remedial mechanical skills, you know what a treasure a talented and trustworthy mechanic can be.  ...

Friends Had a Fire

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer

My friend Jay is an author from Prairie Farm, Wisconsin.  I just found out Jay and Ken lost their house in a fire – the details are...

Coop on Vacation

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

While we are very much enjoying our vacation right here on the farm (doing terrific things like picking up old bread bags stuck in t...

Whad'Ya Know? Show and Long Beds

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

During the recent World Tour in support of Tiny Pilot, the Long Beds climbed off their palatial tour buses (we each have our own...

Really Doing It

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

Because I wrote a book about raising pigs and chickens, and because one-half of our granary roof is tiled with photovoltaic panels, ...

Welcome Whad'Ya Know? Fans

If you're here from Whad'Ya Know?, welcome.  Click here for info about the album we were singin' from.  We had a blast.  Plus they fed us.  Bands like free food.

Spoon River to Music

I'm taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We're not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we're just knockin' around the farm.  But posts for the next week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I've set them up to just publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

A friend with a cool name sent me The Hill, the album Richard Buckner built around Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River...

I Remember That TV Show

Even though I didn't have TV, I remember everyone talking about The Day After.

Now my friend (we've only been in the same six square feet a few times, but have corresponded over the years) Steven Church has written a book about it.

Article about Steve here.