Who can really call themselves a hayseed if they don’t have livestock, and Charles the Kat doesn’t count.
Ladies!

Tonight, the whole family drove out to Dennis the Chicken Man’s house to pick up the girls. We ended up with one each:

Australorp
Ameraucana
Buff Rock
Golden Laced Wyandotte

While the baby didn’t quite make it and slept through the [...]

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I loaded up Google Earth the other day and saw that they’d updated their images.
This one’s from last summer and is as close to what my yard actually looks like these days. I’ve noted a few prominent features just to orient anyone interested in what I’m warbling about when I refer to my little [...]

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Funny thing has happened this year… I seem to be more interested in flowers than veggies. Well, more specifically, I’m more interested in the holistic garden environment than just producing food. Not sure what that’s about, but I also actually purchased more mason bees, and I’m considering starting a beehive.
I think that it’s [...]

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Here it is… mid-February and the sun is shining.  This is the time that all the neighbor gardeners stop by and we all look at each other with twitchy, bulgy eyes… “how’s the fever?”   Spring fever, that is.
Portland has a regular pattern that involves a couple of months (Dec. - Jan.) of intolerably bad, rainy, [...]

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Arctic doomsday seed vault powers up
Does this mean that besides killing whales for sandwiches, Norway is doing this actual *good* thing?
My cynical side says this is either a hoax or will somehow result in putrid piles of dead penguins or something.
And, yes, I know, the idea of saving these limited numbers of varieties of plants [...]

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