Mike Dickey
Crossroads
Driving back to the farm last night in the wind and rain that remained of Hurricane Sally, it occurred to me that one way to get to know...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
I'm the only soul foolish enough to be in the office this morning. Hurricane Sally is making landfall maybe 150 miles west of here as I...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 15, 2020
- 4 min
Technology
As is true for all of us I suppose, the engine that makes farm life possible is our paying work. Maybe there will be a day when the place...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
The Relentless Grass
Most weekends in the summer at Wyldswood are spent mowing. Of our 60-80 acres (no one seems exactly sure what all is out there), roughly...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
Diocletian's Palace
Every few days, especially when we've been away for a while, Peg hoses all the chicken and guinea excrement through the wire floor below...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 12, 2020
- 4 min
Dropping In
One might think that, with a house separated from civilization by many acres of pasture and fences and trees, the occupants of Wyldswood...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 11, 2020
- 4 min
Taco (pronounced "Tay-Co")
There may be a day, decades or even centuries from now, when some genealogy buff, who looks vaguely like yours truly, gets curious about...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
Zipper Peas
After yesterday's heaviness, which drew a grand total of zero views, I am as promised moving along to a meditation on the lowly zipper...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
Narrating Self
I have mentioned in a previous post that I am in the midst of reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. In his discussion of consciousness,...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
Firearms Around the Farm
Watching all of the news stories about bush league gun nuts on both sides (but mostly one, it seems) has me thinking this morning about...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Brewster the Rooster
So, the joke goes something like this: Once there was a rooster named Brewster who roamed Farmer Smith's barnyard, having his way with...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 6, 2020
- 2 min
Eggs!
Well, it was six months coming, but this morning resting softly in a pile of bird poop we found our very first egg at Wyldswood since we...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
Come on Home
Busy day yesterday with Peg dragging the golf cart back from Santa Rosa to Perry, while I flew the Cardinal across a hazy panhandle to...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 4, 2020
- 4 min
Deer Season
It is now September in Taylor County (and everywhere else, I suppose), which means the woods and pastures will soon be alive with folks...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 3, 2020
- 4 min
Brothers and Sisters
While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, “Your...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Sound of Silence
Two nights ago we were both too wound up to sleep, and found ourselves sitting on the porch at 2 a.m. looking across the yard and fields...
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Mike Dickey
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Disappeared
As I write this, a tan Persian mix is pacing outside my office door, meowing plaintively for her daughter. This has been going on almost...
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Mike Dickey
- Aug 31, 2020
- 4 min
Nocturnal Dance
Yesterday we returned to Wyldswood after five days away, working and then traveling to Tennessee to visit family and spend time with...
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Mike Dickey
- Aug 28, 2020
- 3 min
Cicero, Montaigne, and Me
Another short post today as I prepare for a grinding second day of depositions. Thinking of two of my favorite essayists this morning,...
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Mike Dickey
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Real Life Intrudes
This morning P and I are, again, away from Wyldswood, plying our trade in an operating room and a Zoom deposition, respectively. I have...
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