Comments on: In which I beat off a coyote with a box of Rice Chex

By: Jana

Jana — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:58:15 +0000

My husband hunts them….if they are getting that close to your home they are a definite danger. They have been known to drag off children. Day or night. There is no way I would allow this to continue. Be careful….

By: Roscommon Acres » Blog Archive » Advice sought

Roscommon Acres » Blog Archive » Advice sought — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:36:00 +0000

[...] year, my readers selected an entry for me, In which I beat of a coyote with a box of Rice Chex. It was a good choice. It was my very first public reading and my audience laughed in all the right [...]

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:19:59 +0000

I just read about your little boy. Praying.

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:38:38 +0000

Goodness…what suspense. I had to laugh at the end when you wrote about swinging the cereal at the bush!

We, too, live rurally. Boy, what an adventure!

By: Roscommon Acres » Blog Archive » I am a mommyblogger, or Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:03:13 +0000

[...] for the two year old, the extra pants for the baby. In went two pens, a notebook, directions and the piece I planned to read aloud. With a nagging sense that maybe a blog entry wasn’t appropriate for a public reading, being [...]

By: Roscommon Acres » Blog Archive » A dirty little secret about rural life

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:04:00 +0000

[...] Fortunately, it was all occurring in our dumpster on the back porch, but that wasn’t going to last forever. I began thinking about trash in a whole new way. Buy a pizza and you are left with a box, a cardboard circle and a piece of plastic. Buy apples and you are left with a plastic bag and plastic tie. Buy milk and you are left with a plastic jug. Eventually, the trash was going to find the rim of the dumpsters, even the new ones my husband added on, the lids weren’t going to snap closed and we were going to have a bit of a problem, one you don’t want to have when you are already on unsteady terms with the local wildlife. [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:05 +0000

Yes, very much like the stump episode.

Thanks, everyone, for laughing with me at my little adventure!
.-= Dana´s last blog ..In which I beat off a coyote with a box of Rice Chex =-.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:08:29 +0000

Hahaha! You know, we have been reading the Little House books out loud, and this reminds me of two incidents in the books — in Little house on the Prairie, when the wolves surround the cabin all night, and in Little House in the Big Woods, when Pa defends himself from a stump on the way home from town!

By: monica @ educating magpies

monica @ educating magpies — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:04:21 +0000

excellent story! now all you need is Rice Chex to sponsor your next attendance at a blog conference. it’s a natural tie in, don’t you think?
.-= monica @ educating magpies´s last blog ..Meant for business; apply to self-directed learning =-.

By: Lori @ Just Pure Lovely

Lori @ Just Pure Lovely — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:23:19 +0000

Okay, so my little baby shark is no longer frightening at ALL. We can just avoid the Gulf, if we want to avoid him! I love reading about your life there, so different than my area. God's Earth is amazing. .-= Lori @ Just Pure Lovely´s last blog ..Recently, I... =-.