I keep trying to get images of the hundreds of baby toads hopping around the property this month but they move so fast. They dont hold still while i focus the camera. The tree frogs do tend to hold still so i have more images of them. I did get one image of a large …
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Nana Pudding
There she is in all her sassy glory. Half the size of her orpington sisters but twice the amount of attitude. if i open the nesting box to load one up at night…she will fly out and need recaptured, you can be sure. Americaunas are smart chickens so if you are used to orpingtons…you’ve been …
The Pullets’ First Carton of Eggs
This was the first whole carton of eggs the pullets ever laid. The eggs started out very tiny. I had to decide which of the people i supplied with eggs got the first batch of enchantingly tiny eggs because as the chickens grew, so too would the eggs, and only one carton was ever this …
A Bad Day gets Better
I had had a very trying day. Everyone and their cousin and their dog had unmet expectations about how i should be both on and off the clock and nobody really seemed to care who i was. A patient’s brother was taking it very personal that i didnt pay attention to everyone in the grocery …
The Pullets Lay their First Eggs
When the rat snake posted up inside the pullets’ pen i thought, “what in the world are you doing in there? Why not get in the adult chicken pen where they have an occasional egg? Because the pullets were not supposed to start laying until september, so they started 3 weeks early. Turns out, the …
Hand Stitching Scrubs
Im currently in a financial era of my life where i cannot afford the services of a tailor…and the one i had retired anyway, so, if threading busts, i have to fix it myself. Due to a bunch of trauma surrounding my sister sewing through her finger and passing out still attached to the sewing …
Sili’s New Addiction
This damned dog has started eating cactus. And that goes about like one would think it would go. I know she’s been doing it again because she comes back with a face full of cactus needles. I mean hundreds. And not the big spiky white ones either. No, the teeny little orange ones that are …
Connect the Dots with Fedex
I’ve been fighting a lot with Fedex lately. I’ve been receiving a misfits market box in the mail for years now. Misfits market has a deal with Fedex. FedEx delivers the package. In the entirety of the time I have had the service, I have never had to sign for the package, nor have I …
Learning to Change a Tire
When the flood happened i stayed home from work for 2 days. The first day i stayed home because the river was rising and i didnt want to be separated from my animals when it took the bridge and cut us off from the rest of the towns and cities. Who would feed them, hive …
July 16, 2026
I knew it was going to happen again yesterday but nobody would listen to me. Everybody thought i was paranoid…dramatic. Its not like last year, they said. See, the bridge is still there. Yes its flooding but this time its not up to the bridge yet and this time we have bridge officials and the …