Kathy Brasby Blog
What’s with cookie dough?
“The best way to eat cookies,” said our young guest as he plopped a spoonful of cookie dough on top of a baked cookie. “Best.” And that made me think about my cookie-making history, because I thought I had seen every method of eating and snitching bookie dough. But...
All Natural
I live in Colorado farm country. That blends a very dry climate with some hard-working and practical folks. Which means you see some weird stuff at the farm store. As I stood in the checkout line, I saw a little display box containing little white tubes of a product...
Drowning a dragon
I had one of those coughs that made your toenails rattle and, after a morning of listening to my hacking, a co-worker gave me the evil eye. “That sounds like a smoker’s cough,” he said. “I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life,” I said. But I had to take it back....
Those eyes
I’ve heard of husband eyes but hadn’t really experienced kid eyes until the Christmas tree deal. This eyes thing shows up when someone is sent to a location to look for something and they can’t find it. My older son, who is now a husband himself, tells me that his...
Duck Mama
I’m all for devoted mothers but this was special. Mama Bear kind of special. We live on a hobby farm and at one time had a brace of Moscovy ducks. I had to look this up but did you know that a group of ducks can be called a brace, badelynge, bunch or a flock? While...
An Eery Eclipse
A lunar eclipse provided a challenging but interesting photo opportunity. Here's a composite of some shots I got. I combined several into one photo for another-world look.
Warning labels
Mint plants should come with warning labels. I would have done things differently had I known. But I bought my mint plant when we moved into our house eleven years ago expecting to have to nurture the tiny leaves. I tenderly planted the tiny sprouts, protecting their...
When you need a translator
“What do you think this says?” my husband studied a small box he’d lifted from the shelf at the grocery store. “Do you know any of these words?” I browsed the ingredient list. Browsed in the sense that I tried to put letters together to make words. I knew the letters...
Our adventure
From the time he decorated himself like a Christmas tree , our youngest has brought adventures to our life. He was the one who rummaged through his father’s toolbox so that he could remove the training wheels from his bike after one day on his little bike. “Those get...