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 northern weather has chased them south too.

I stayed home for Thanksgiving. But the menu was pork chops, mashed potatoes and green beans with chunks of Hershey and sugar wafers on the side. It was all very tasty.

However, I ruined today’s lunch.

To stay out of the bars, I buy old computers and rehab them. A friend of mine had one given to her last week and she gave it to me to fix. It took 2 days and a new operating system but it will run and maybe some child will be able to use it for school. The person that had this was not a good housekeeper. It took 4 trips to the air compressor trying to blow all of the dirt out of it. Disgusting. I have only seen one that was worse, but it came out of a lawnmower repair shop. That dirt did not bother me, it was clean dirt. This one that was given to my friend is the result of a lazy bum. She was told it was a new computer and had never been used. Horse feathers. That was a plain lie. The monitor is so dirty I am going to take it to the recycle place here in town. I don’t want it in my house.

Later,

Rex