I Love the Smell of Diesel in the Mornin...

“This is an important rite of passage in a man’s life”, declared Andy. “This is the moment where we up our game and take farming to the next level.” Now I thought that point — where we went from playing farmers/vintners on the InterWebs to being REAL farmers — would be when we got actual non-terrier livestock. No, that dividing line, that...

Learning Spanish with Salma Hayek, Burro...

Tonight was my first Spanish class at Community College of San Francisco. I approached it with some trepidation. It’s been years since I learned a language and I’m worried that part of my brain is rusty. But trying to manage the grape harvest last fall using just my vaguely-remembered Latin and a lot of hand signals convinced me that I needed to master at least the basics....

Let Us Now Praise Western Fence Lizards

I learned an interesting fact the other day from visiting one of my favorite bloggers, Carson at The 7MSN Ranch. Actually, I always learn interesting facts from Carson, especially as she’s about 15 years ahead of me in this City to Ranch transition. Unlike my Dubya Style Ranching (defined as a having the trappings of a ranch except no livestock but terriers), Carson has a real...