Posted in personal on Mar 20th, 2008
Normally I’m someone that gives the US Postal Service a lot of credit. They move a lot of mail, don’t charge that much and are pretty dang reliable. But this week has really tried my patience.
We filed our change of address notice in early February, online. We got confirmation of it by mail a week […]
Posted in chickens on Mar 19th, 2008
I asked the peepers to smile pretty for a one week anniversary photo, but they all said “nah, talk to my back.”
Our first week has come and gone and so far so good. Everyone is getting cute little wing feathers and there’s a bit more running and flapping then sleeping. So far we’ve had […]
Confession time. We have a bird crazy puppy problem around here. We’ve never trusted Jake around the hens, as he’s a bit too interested in them, if you know what I mean. Now that we don’t have them in a run or him inside a fence, it’s been a bit of a balancing act making […]
Posted in press on Mar 17th, 2008
If you’re in the Seattle area, I’ll be on the radio Wednesday morning at 6:40 am on 94.1 KMPS. Randy, of the Waking Crew, wants to talk chicken. And apparently he thinks I know something worth talking about.
If you’re not local to Seattle, it seems that you can actually listen live online as well (just […]
I was hoping to be writing tonight about our mega dog fence project, but unfortunately the concrete didn’t set fast enough for us to stretch wire today. So maybe next weekend… Until then the dogs are still stuck in the house with us when we’re homeand in the barn when we go to work. If […]
Posted in personal, daily photo on Mar 14th, 2008
Some people buy themselves furniture, flowers, candles or other niceties as housewarming presents. Not me I guess.
The very first thing I bought “for the new house” was a pair of pig farmers for me. I have a pair of Wellingtons (traditional black), but they came free with the last house and are about 2 sizes […]
Posted in chickens on Mar 14th, 2008
The four-toed kind that is…
What’s a crazy chicken lady to do when she’s only got 4 hens but 3.5 acres of land? Why buy 10 chicks on a whim of course.
Yesterday we got home on the train at 8:45 am. Drove to the house, changed our clothes and headed up to Skagit Farm […]
