Eighth of an Acre Bounty

Hows that for a title? Sums up this week pretty good. Our cat Bukowski has gone missing and we are both desperately hoping he turns up fresh from a walkabout. He is chipped and we haven’t received any calls yet. Earlier this week we went down to the Animal Control shelter just to double check […]

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The two little spoiled Princesses of this household had thier first true faceoff earlier this week. While Nin is undoubtedly the queen of indoors (being the only girl aside from me in a house of boys), Blume is the spoiled princess of the yard. As I mentioned in my earlier post, we have been ranging […]

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The changing season is making itself evident in our yard now. The signs have been elsewhere for a while. If the falling leaves and biting cold didn’t convince us already, this morning I saw the evidence of our first frost while going to let the girls out of the coop. It had already warmed a […]

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This guy was huge! I don’t know what variety he (she?) is, but apparently he decided that the recent weather was not at all summerlike and escaped indoors. I found him in my makeshift proofing box over the weekend when I was about  to proof bread. I should have put something recognizable in there for […]

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Must have been the rain that was coming, it has been pouring ALL day. Hard work being a dog around this joint eh?

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This is Blume, she’s little but she ain’t afraid to look you in the eye. Blume is by far the most social (toward humans) chicken of the three. We got the girls from a good friend  who has a much larger flock a couple of hours away and in the first few days of the […]

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Because there were three whole posts in a row with no eye candy. I give you bee head above And bee butt below.

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They hide things from us…. Ever since we got the chickens we have been vexing and worrying over Cleary – the Wyandott because after putting out one egg while housed in my office on the first night, she hasn’t been laying. She throws a fit every time Blume goes in a box to lay, but […]

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Finally! After a cold cold spring complete with snow in April, hailstorms and a false start of a couple 90 degree days it seems that the sun has finally decided to grace us with its presence for more than a day, rather than peeking out then running away laughing. The past several days have been […]

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