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You know what would be cool?
That’s a key question in The Forest. When my husband or I start out a conversation with "You know what would be cool?" it generally means that something fairly cool is about to happen.Like…. a writing cottage will be built.Or we take up chicken farming. You get the picture.So when we were planning for our son’s [...]
Taking advantage of the longest days & WFMAD anyone?
Sorry to have been to absent from blogging, my friends. We’ve been taking advantage of the long days in the garden. A very generous friend showed up with a pick-up truck filled with herbs. The herb garden by the cottage that I was going to work on this fall is now on an accelerated schedule! [...]
Gardening with chickens & ingenious bookstore event
A bunch of you have written asking for chicken update pictures. Earlier this week, BH and I took a couple of the girls out to help us weed the flower beds. They are bug-eating machines. A man and his chicks.Along with the garden (we’ve been eating the first peas this week) and the chickens, we’ve been [...]
Chickens grow right in front of your eyes!
Our chickens are two weeks old and all seem very healthy. Incredibly healthy. In fact, I am wondering if our proximity to the nuclear power plant is influencing their stupendous growth rate.BH has been slowly turning a pile of scrap lumber into the coop, but some recent chicken test flightsaccelerated the schedule. Below you’ll see a [...]
Rochester-bound & chicken moment of zen
(Zen can be found at the bottom of this post.)A couple of people have written to ask how our dog, the Creature With Fangs, is taken the arrival of the baby chickens. (The CWF is a large, neurotic German Shepherd.)We have not made the necessary introductions yet. There is a very good chance we never [...]
Chicken Day!!
I’ve been talking about adding chickens (and goats and pigs and turkeys and ducks and heaven knows what else) to our Forest for a while. BH got jazzed about the challenge of building a safe chicken coop out of scrap lumber and I have been lusting after eggs, and WARNING!! VEGETARIANS SKIP THE NEXT GRAF!chicken that I can eat without being [...]
Yep, I’m still here!!
No, I have not dropped off the face of the planet. I’ve just been a bit busy.BUT!You can see me ALL DAY at the Teen Book Festival in Rochester, NY this Saturday.OR you can read my Book Brahmin interview at Shelf Awareness, in which I answer questions about books.OR (blushing about this one) you can read this [...]
For the record?
It is snowing outside right now. No, I’m not kidding. This is why I haven’t transplanted my seedlings yet.
Garden update
We are still about a month away from our last frost date, but I’ve gotten massive amounts of work done already.Without really thinking about it too much, my husband and I are edging closer and closer to a more or less sustainable lifestyle. I guess the goal is to produce as much of our own food [...]
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Chicken update – cute predator alert