Carol's Pond

  April 1, 2025 Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond The weather has been rather nasty. Mother Nature has thrown a temper tantrum this past month. We were without power for about 2 days. But there has been high winds and hail. The hail was small, but it still made a lot of noise on the sunroom roof which is all glass. The sunroom had one panel that liked to leak, not much but enough I sat a bucket to catch the drips. But this past Veteran’s Day, my God son Russ Voorhies got on the roof and caulked the living you know what, out of it. IT STILL LEAKED!!!! However since the weather has warmed up, the caulk has settled and the leak is gone. It is supposed to rain for the next several days, so we shall see. I have spent the morning working in the yard picking up the dead limbs that came down in the storm. I got 4 wheel barrels full from the back yard alone. There is a load on the deck and the back walk going to the shop. The front yard wil...

  May 16, 2025 Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond Well today is another anniversary. Sixty-one years ago today an old lady made a left turn and hit me broadside on my bicycle. That was on a Saturday about 11 A.M. It was Wednesday before I knew who I was and where I was. That wreck still causes me problems today. But while I was in the hospital, my friends Gene and Janet would come to visit me and Janet would go visit Carol. It was here I first heard of Carol. While I was still in the hospital, Carol was transferred to Sloan Kettering in New York for surgery. Gene and I both worked at the Avon Theater. Gene was the projectionist and I ran the popcorn machine. One night after the show I was cleaning the machine and heard voices coming down the stairway. I did not know anyone was in the balcony. I looked around the corner and there she was. It was the first time I ever saw Carol. I was in love immediately. And I still am in love with Ca...

 Carol's Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond May 15, 2025  Today is the 23rd Anniversary of the wreck with the Mack Truck.   I have had some visitors recently; Blue Boy, the Great Blue Heron flew past just to say hello as did Whitey, the Great White egret and one of my favorites, the Roadrunner was in my neighbors field.  Road runners are a pretty bird. My back door has glass to within about 4 inches of the floor.  The roadrunner came right up to the glass and looked in.  They are not afraid.  And Woody Woodpecker has been very active this spring.  I have seen Woody twice but not well enough to identify it.  And the bull frogs in Carol's Pond have been serenading me too. Out on Goat Island I found a complete turtle shell.  It is not completely empty, part of it's body is rattling around inside.  I have it outside where it can finish drying. A week or so ago, we had so much rain the water was going over the dam.  That make...

  February 22, 2025 Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond It has been a cold miserable month here at Carol’s Pond. Below 80 is cold. But despite the cold I have had several visitors. One of the local Roadrunners has visited twice. Even coming up and looking in the sunroom door. They are a pretty bird. Mostly gray and white to blend in with the brush where they hunt. The other visitors were also from the avian world. I am not sure if they were crows or ravens. Either one is welcome. On a side note, the Boise Idaho Zoo had a raven that was a character. It would come to the front of the cage, put its wing down like it was injured, ruffle up its feathers trying to look sick and it would then beg for peanuts. I would toss it a peanut and it would gulp it down, shell and all and keep begging. I would toss another one in and it would pick it up, pull up its wing, smooth out the feathers and run to the back of the cage. There it would p...

  January 5, 2025 Carol’s Dragon Fly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond Happy New Year I was in Lebanon, Indiana in mid December for the funeral of Carol’s older brother, Buddy Hodgdon. It was a very sad affair but it was well attended despite the cold weather. Buddy was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and an all around nice guy. It is windy here in northeast Texas today. One could almost surf on Carol’s Pond. There aren’t any whitecaps yet, but they are close. The Purple Martin bird house is swaying in the wind like a pendulum. This wind is supposed to blow in some cold weather. Hopefully, it will blow the cold right on out of here. Cold weather is never welcome here and below 80 is cold. I managed to give away 2 computers this past week. I have one coming back that they decided they did not want, so I will get it ready and find someone that needs it. The computers I give away run Linux Mint. They do not run Windows. While they originally used ...

November 29, 2024 Carol's Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol's Pond Today is the 58th anniversary of Carol's passing. Later, Rex