This is Roma, the first orb weaver of the year on the iron rose homestead. I’ve already warned her to stay away from praying mantis. She was hanging out on the greenhouse door but it did not appear to be a permanent spot for her as she did not construct any webbing. I’ll see if …
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The Shooting Box
Some time last year the person who taught me to shoot and i had a falling out when i became smothered and lost all aspect of independence. Thats a good way to ensure that you’ve lost me, is smother me, just an FYI for the world. I cant be consumed and i cant be controlled. …
Lucy’s First Bath
I decided Lucy was going to be different than my other cars. I was not going to haul trees or dogs in Lucy. If something messy needed to be transported i would schedule a rental car or put down painter’s plastic everywhere. It wasnt that she didnt have scratches or paint chips. She did. She’s …
A Chicken Coop for the Pending Chocolate Orpingtons
My friend had offered to come help me construct this chicken coop, and i was thinking that’d be a good idea in case someone needed to hold a piece in place or against another piece while the other one used the drill. However, the anxiety disorder/adhd combo is a very effective pairing for getting things …
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Setting up the Brooder Box
Honestly, as many years as i’ve had chickens now, i’ve never had a legit brooder box. This is partly because i’ve never timed the purchase of chicks with the weather in my area. Not a lot of planning ever went into it. I just purchased chicks when the older batch had died and i needed …
Berkey
Bud is the larger armadillo with a healed over puncture mark that lives under a rotted tree stump behind my house. Berkey is the name my mother gave to the newest younger and smaller armadillo to show up on scene. He was quite small when he first appeared and he seems to have a den …
The Beads Project
This winter i began a project with some framed chicken wire and glass/wood/ceramic/paper beads. It involves stringing beads on little metal wire pieces and then attaching them one per space of chicken wire in the frame. When i am all finished i will use the velcro stick-on strips to hang the frame on the bathroom …
Mowing the Grass One More Time
A Country Solution
I’m currently covering my coworker’s maternity leave which means i’m seeing her patients and my boss is seeing his and my patients. We are one man down so i cant exactly call in and say i need a day off to go handle a dog thing. I usually order my flea and heart-worm meds from …
Thoughts on Finances
I found this paragraph that i’d jotted down on an introspective day earlier this year. “Jesus teaches us that there are things that are more important than money. 1. Love for thy fellow human being. 2. What is right and just in the eyes of the Lord. Both things are more important than money. Money …