Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens on Jan 23rd, 2008
Since I’ve committed to this challenge I’m going to go all the way! I called the local P-Patch group to find out about getting a spot. We’re still trying to buy the fugly house and sell ours, but just in case I wanted to have a back-up plan… I’m anal that way.
The woman who runs […]
Posted in personal on Jan 22nd, 2008
I’m not a road warrior by any means. But I do fly 10-12 trips a year for business and pleasure. That translates to roughly 30-40 flights when you count multi-leg journeys. And I’m increasingly annoyed with air travel, to the extent that if I can drive I will. We’re taking the train for my birthday […]
Posted in urban chickens, locavore on Jan 21st, 2008
I’ve been told a couple of times that free range eggs aren’t that much richer colored. And that it has as much to do with the chicken as her diet. While this my friends is proof that that is bulls*%^.
These are all eggs from Danny. Same hen, ten eggs. The two dark ones were laid […]
Posted in urban chickens, house on Jan 19th, 2008
The world’s best down muff.Lucy gave me an evil look when I used the flash on her tonight, but it was worth it. The girls have been taking turns sitting in the nest box all day and now apparently at night (I turned off the light). None of them seem to be serious about being […]
Posted in urban chickens on Jan 17th, 2008
Chickens are strange birds. On the one hand they seem smart. My hens know to come when called, they know I am the bringer of treats, they know Mike is not. On the other hand they’re pretty dumb. Everything shiny must be pecked and shadows are scary.
We’re two girls down here at the hennery. Yesterday […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens on Jan 15th, 2008
I signed up for The Growing Challenge through Melinda’s blog. Essentially I’ve committed to growing one more thing from seed than I did last year and writing a weekly post about it. Since I didn’t start anything from seed in 2007 this should be a snap!
I’m hoping to plant a nice garden this year if […]
Posted in house on Jan 14th, 2008
Remember when I mentioned that it was all going too smoothly? Well I was right. Saturday was the inspection on our new house. Or the house we were hoping would be our new house. We already knew that there was work needed on the well, roof, barn and a ton of cosmetic issues. What we […]
