With the wet weather and high humidity of the past week i have had to wrench the chicken coop door open to collect eggs during brief drier spells: every two to four days. When it is wet the wood door swells and cements itself to the frame. today i collected after not being able to …
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A Brief Visit from the Sun
I slept through all the alarms this morning and was startled awake by something i hadnt seen in a week; sun. For about an hour this morning the rain took a nap and we had sun before the clouds reappeared. However, this was not the only reason i was surprised to see it. My tiny …
The Reason You Should Attack a Bark Scorpion at Your Own Risk
I was brushing my teeth. My atypical self must pace the length of the house while i brush my teeth. I cant get it done standing in front of the bathroom mirror. So im pacing the house when i notice a bark scorpion camped out on the wall above the bookshelf. If you didnt know …
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90 Percent Humidity Evokes Memories of Florida
It’s been sprinkling/misting and the humidity has been sitting between 80 and 90 % for a week. The bedding inside the tiny house feels like that of an old run down beachfront hotel i used to stay at in Florida. They had window units in the room and it kept the place freezing. They asked …
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Not the Day to Buy a Lottery Ticket
I was inside the house having a popsicle to cool down after mowing the lawn. I had just finished a strawberry one and got up to throw away the stick. As i walked across the room it was as if the light left with me, as if a sheet had been quickly pulled over the …
Homesteading with ADD on a Wednesday
i arrived home from work after a short day and began unloading the car. I took the bag of popsicles, the mail, and my purse into the house. I let the dogs into the dog run and filled one of two water bowls for them. I took a look around the property while i was …
Eyes in the Darkness
This morning i put on the headlamp and went outside to liberate the chickens from the coop and fill their water dispenser and get the dog pen all situated before Sili and Cashew came out. I left them inside eating their breakfast. When i stepped outside i did the usual headlamp sweep of the darkness …
My Porch Garden/Thawing Station
When the weather is hot outside i use the porch plant cages as a makeshift counter to thaw things from the refrigerator or freezer. Chickpea Flour and melted vegan butter into a ziploc freezer bag…quail and quail blood straight into bag…add a little bit of soy sauce…onto the parchment paper. No bowl was used to …
Cleopatra and Arsinoe
One morning i went to pull the car through the gate to go to work and there were two magnificent orb weavers in adjacent impressive webs with an anchor line stretching to the ground. They are the same kind of orb weaver, probably sisters, and one is slightly larger than the other. I named the …
The Homestead gets a Dishwasher
I have always dreamed of owning a dishwasher. when i moved into the tiny house in 2019 i looked into what it would take to put a dish washer in there and it quickly became apparent that this was not an appliance that would be possible to put on this property. There was just enough …