Cost: $100 (mostly recycled materials).Value? priceless.
After a hard day of trampling paths up & down the hill or shoveling the 22″ of snow that have graced us since Friday (or plowing snow for Keith, including the road and the driveway of several neighbors), we have worked quite an appetite. Tonight dinner is homemade pizza (the [...]
Read More..>>Can you guess which one is the river and which one is the road (and that’s less water running through than early this morning)
No matter, we are stuck here! And the rain’s not over yet.
First order of the day was to move the chicken to higher - and drier - pasture, since the one where [...]
Read More..>>They love insects, worms, caterpillars, maggots, larvae, meat if they can get it. They do need animal protein for a balanced and healthy diet - which means also chicken and eggs healthy to eat - and delicious.
If anybody ever doubted that chickens are not vegetarians, they should have been here a few mornings ago, when [...]
Comments(8) The chicken have moved to their winter quarters.
We’ve taken the wire fence from the summer garden down; moved the electric net fence to enclose the new chicken area; relocated the coop inside the old summer garden, and built a little dome shelter - complete with perches - so the chicken can be outside [...]
Read More..>>We are calling them girls (Gael, Gladys, Gwen, Gali, Gudule etc etc). There might be a boy in there - won’t know for sure for a few weeks. He’ll be Gaston, or Gus, or Gaspard - haven’t quite decided yet.
The girls are still in the brooder and not out yet (too cold - got down [...]
Read More..>> Comments(4) Something softly went through the hollow last night, dropping huge handfuls of wet snow all over. The snow on the ground was gone by mid-morning, but wads of sticky whiteness remained in shrubs and dry grasses - looking like cotton candy.
Meanwhile, inside under the shop lights, seeds planted earlier this month have germinated, true leaves [...]
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