Posted in one local summer, locavore on Aug 9th, 2007
It was really nice to be back in the groove this week. I had time to go to the farmer’s market, to think about meals, to generally get it together. I normally would have avoided doing eggs for an OLS meal as they feel a bit like cheating, but it’s so nice to be back in […]
Posted in urban chickens, press, personal on Aug 8th, 2007
So as some of you might remember, I took some photos for a magazine back in July. That magazine was Maclean’s of Canada I was also interviewed by their very nice contributing editor Julia McKinnell for the article she was working on about chickens in Seattle. I’ve been waiting with baited breath ever since to see if I would […]
Posted in urban chickens, personal on Aug 7th, 2007
Do you believe that bad things come in threes? It’s always been a belief in my family that they do. Of course they have to be related. So just a total of 3 random bad things does not mean your streak is over. They have to be three bad cooking things, three bad forgetting things, […]
Posted in urban chickens on Aug 6th, 2007
We’re finally back in the eggs. That’s more eggs in 3 days than we’ve gotten since the end May. Pru laid 2 in the last two days, as did Lucy. Agnes and Penny were both good for an egg a day. I’ve got them organized by hen so you can see who lays what color.
Going counter-clockwise: […]
Posted in personal on Aug 6th, 2007
So I’m a blog admirer. That is to say I have a number of blogs I love including and in addition to my blog roll to the right. One of the blog’s I love to read is Manerva’s 12 Happy Chickens. She did a meme while I was on vacation and left it open for others […]
Posted in vacation, one local summer, locavore on Aug 5th, 2007
It’s been longer than I thought since I posted. No OLS meal this week, at least not formally. We just didn’t have our act together after getting home. We ate a lot of local food, just never as a complete dinner. Our local efforts this week included chicken salad sandwiches one night (everything within 50 […]
Posted in urban chickens on Aug 1st, 2007
The chicks are at that stage where they’re cute from a distance, ugly up close and cute again when you’re all the way there. They’ve got about 60% of their feathers. Still fuzz on the neck and the belly and naked under the wings. But cute! nonetheless.
Maisie seems to have broken the long toe on […]
