Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond April 27, 2026 April is almost over, just 3 more days. It has warmed up enough today I may have to turn on the AC. I may have to change the name of this blog to Carol’s Rabbit Ranch. I was out last night hunting armadillos and saw 2 cottontails in the side yard and this morning there was one in the back yard. Yesterday morning on my way to church, 2 deer went across the road in front of me. I enjoy watching them jump fences. It is still very dry. We need rain desperately. The turtles in Carol’s Pond have claimed one end of Goat Island. My neighbor dropped a couple of pine trees in the pond over by the dam and the turtles like them too. Samantha, the green lizard that likes to flirt with me was walking the deck rails a couple of weeks ago and Sam a brown and blue lizard may have taken up residence in the garage. I left the door open a inch or so. But I do not know if he stayed or left. My hea...
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Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond Dec 7, 2025 Things have been fairly quiet at the pond. Most of the livestock have burrowed into the ground trying to stay warm. I understand that. I despise cold weather. I thought I had moved far enough south to avoid it, but I did not move south far enough. But I did see some of the residential deer herd last week. There was 4 of them, 1 buck and 3 does. The buck was missing half of his rack. I don’t know if it was a natural shed or if it was broken off defending his women or like the one I shot in Idaho, did some hunter blow it off. We shall never know. Whitey stopped by today to looking for lunch. I don’t know if he or she was successful. Whitey changed locations on Carol’s Pond and I lost sight of the hunter or is that a fisherman or fisher-woman. You all can decide. I have been seeing small wood peckers that normally live far to the north. We used to see them in Indiana. I think t...
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Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond March 4, 2026 Hopefully winter is over. I detest cold weather. I keep my thermostat on 76 and still sleep with a sheet, and an electric blanket and still another blanket on top. Being cold sucks. But I am afraid I am going to have to get tough and ugly with Mother Nature. I realize Nancy Kissack out in California is trying not to drown because of all of the rain and fog she has had. We have had fog, but no rain. So I explained to Mother Nature that if she does not bring us rain and I mean several inches, that I will be forced to step out on the deck and shoot her a full moon in broad daylight. Nobody and I mean nobody wants to see my bare ass, but Mother Nature is forcing the issue. Carol’s Pond is at least 2 feet low. Goat Island is now a peninsula and has been for several months. The Idaho desert was not as dry as it is here. I bought a Sony All-in-One computer at a sale for $20.00 It had be...
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Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond January 2026 This is my anniversary month. My niece Erika was born on January 24. I was Honorably Discharged from the USAF on January 25. I entered the USAF on January 26. I was divorced on January 27. My Mother passed on January 30. My sister passed on January 31. I had a total hip replacement on January31. This last week of January tends to make me nervous. Another reason to me nervous this week is the weather that is due in tomorrow. Freezing rain and snow are predicted along with very cold temperatures. The electrical power here is horrible. I have lost power more times in the 7 years I have lived here than I have in all of the other places I have ever lived. And for the most part, it is unnecessary. Put the electric underground. This area of Texas has an abundance of pine trees. I like the trees but pine is a soft wood and the soil here is a favorite of the pine trees. They sprout up ...
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Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond January 8, 2026 Happy New Year everyone. For January, the weather has been great, but we do need rain desperately. December was an expensive month, I had 3 trees removed and my driveway, torn out and replaced. Two of the trees were very large pine trees that I hated to see go, but I think one was on its way out. But the two of them they had destroyed over 25 feet of my drive. The other tree was a Bradford Pear. When blooming they are very pretty, but they are an invasive species and should be removed. From its location, it too was going to impact a different section of the drive, so out it went. Today was the first day I could drive on the new concrete. I really liked the slogan the concrete company has; “ If you don’t use concrete, it is your own asphalt”. This same company removed some pavers and poured a small slab for me a couple of years ago. Pavers may look good, but in a wheelch...
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Carol’s Dragonfly Ranch Home of Carol’s Pond Dec 7, 2025 Things have been fairly quiet at the pond. Most of the livestock have burrowed into the ground trying to stay warm. I understand that. I despise cold weather. I thought I had moved far enough south to avoid it, but I did not move south far enough. But I did see some of the residential deer herd last week. There were 4 of them, 1 buck and 3 does. The buck was missing half of his rack. I don’t know if it was a natural shed or if it was broken off defending his women or like the one I shot in Idaho, did some hunter blow it off. We shall never know. Whitey stopped by today to looking for lunch. I don’t know if he or she was successful. Whitey changed locations on Carol’s Pond and I lost sight of the hunter or is that a fisherman or fisher-woman. You all can decide. I have been seeing small wood peckers that normally live far to the north. We used to see them in Indiana. I think the ...