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What a day… sigh…

I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]

Pissed Off Chickens

Apparently, there was some sort of misunderstanding… or my mood’s rubbing off on the girls, cuz they were PISSED today.  All of them.  Now, I don’t want to sound sexist… lord knows… I would never…

But, having generally hired women for my businesses, I find that… how to put this… they sometimes… let’s say… synchronize in [...]

LUNCH!

Sometimes, I feel like my garden’s not cutting it.  I still have to buy tomatoes, and it’s heading into August soon.  The aphids have discovered my brassicas.  My only peaches obviously have residents at this point.

But, then, I make myself lunch from the garden:

Today, I had fingerling potatoes sauteed in butter and chives with a [...]

An Even Dozen, and Then I’ll Stop

Let the girls out this morning to pick out our 12th egg.  That’s an even dozen and probably as good a place as any to stop reporting on the subject.  For anyone interested, they’re still tiny– 34 g.

Egg #1

Big day here.  Sitting in my office, slaving away for The Man, I heard this very loud… clucking?  No, more like… bokking.  Bok!… Bok!… Bok!…

It was loud enough that I had to get up and go see what was going on out there.  I looked in the coop, and I only saw three of the [...]