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Category Archives: chickens

In which i prove technically adept

Motivated by a friend who is doing a 21-day posting challenge I thought I’d try and write more too - came over to wordpress and in the process of marking some comments as spam, I accidentally relegated all of my “good” comments to the spam bin.  Which is at last count 2700 comments deep.  I searched [...]

Summer projects

Are far too numerous!  I want to build a coop out of cob, get a motorcycle running, pour a concrete slab, do some gardening, engineer some animal waterers, build a backyard patio (with a firepit!) and do some woodworking!  Also I need to build a compost bin, and fix my car stereo (and the suspension [...]

December is upon us

And that means stress.  Stress from shopping, ordering, shipping, presents, work, school, visit, and so on.  I suck at school SO HARD, if not for that I think I’d be feeling a lot better. Arhg.  I made some soup last night, a recipe I snagged from a link from Jersey - Potato and Leek soup [...]

snooowwww

It started snowing here already, mid to late October and I have yet to buy new winter tires. My WR’s probably still had a bit of life left in them, or would if I hadn’t let an alignment lapse too badly and worn them down to the belts on the inside. Oh well.  I plan [...]

Waffles for dinner

Because, why not.
Using this recipe, because a blog post got me in the mood (of course). It was labor-intensive, but very cool to watch the batter rise up with the action of REAL LIVE YEASTS.   Also, I must say any recipe that requires the use of a food thermometer is pleasing to me.
Also, in [...]

Produce for me, little ones

So, chicken update!  My ladies were hatched on March 1, and I bought them around May 10.  This past Sunday, on July 19, one of them started laying - I noticed a single little egg nestled in the grass under the coop.  Thus alerted, I checked inside, and found a second one in a little [...]