This should have been the first post

But it's not. I felt the need to get a quick message out about the phone service being out in the area since I could not find a reference to it anywhere else on the web. So that became the first post. But in fact, this blog had a previous incarnation. There wasn't much, and it hadn't been updated since 2004. Just a few posts about geese flying, mud, and high blood pressure. Standard schmaltzy stuff, which I promptly deleted. Here, I'll try not to dwell on birds, flowers, and clouds. There's too much other stuff that's relevant. Like right now I hear cows. They've been mooing and braying - yes, braying - since last evening. I think the calves have been separated from their moms. That's why there's such a ruckus at the farm. I could be wrong. I haven't actually walked over there to find out what's going on. But that's what's happened in past years to cause them to moo on and on like that. They'll get over it.