Last night i turned the bathroom light out and headed back towards the kitchen when i noticed a frog hopping down the middle of our floor. The strange thing was that it wasn’t a squatty hard bumpy toad like i was used to. it was a smooth slimy frog with these long gangly arms. It …
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Something is Feeling us Out
Last night i was startled awake from a dead sleep by a noise that shook the bed. I thought something must have fallen in the house and hit the floor, causing the bed to shake. When i turned on the light and looked around i couldn’t find anything out of place. I tried not to …
Thank You Lord
It’s raining.
Wildfire
I knew there were fires to the north of us but they were hours away. I knew my friends, neighbors, and coworkers were holding down the fort at home while their husbands took time off work and drove up north in the middle of the night with livestock trailers and bottles of water with the …
The Chickens Try Fish
I had a piece of wild sockeye salmon in the freezer when it suffered through a few power outages during storms. It became clear to me this fish had thawed and refrozen when i cooked its sibling and tasted it and realized it was no good. I ate it, cuz im cheap, but the taste …
Just Some Chickens Eating a Squash
There’s nothing i love more than to watch the chickens eat. They love food so much. They’ll eat almost anything and they’re happy to function as the clean up crew when you have peels and stems and odd ends and pieces of things after cooking. I like to listen to them make that airy huffing …
The Agaritas Bloom
Two years ago my family member notified me that these thorny things on my property are agarita berry bushes and that while painful to harvest they yield pretty tasty berries. I have wanted to investigate this ever since she said it but for the past two years we have had apocalyptic winter every time these …
Rosie gets her Nails Clipped
Rosie is a beautiful chicken. She is my only chicken that lays medium brown eggs. The rest of them are either cream or a pinkish brown color. Rosie’s eggs are a rich medium brown and they are sometimes speckled with dark brown spots. She is the second biggest chicken after Ellis so her eggs are …
A Photoshoot with the Animals
Somebody asked me to submit some photos and a short paragraph about what i was passionate about in life. Naturally, this included my dogs and chickens. So began a photoshoot that involved bribery, pleading, and luck, for chickens don’t usually understand what it means to say “cheese” and not attempt to eat the camera.
Changing the Light Bulb in the Well House
It was set to freeze again. A cold front was to blow in. Something told me to cover the plants that morning when i was getting ready for work even though it wasn’t supposed to freeze until two hours after my shift. I followed my gut and took the time out of my morning routine …
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