Let me just preface this by saying i was aware winter storm Fern was coming. She wasnt a surprise. Everyone in a 500 mile radius was running around panicking buying every single item in every grocery store whether it was foot fungus cream or light bulbs. They just felt we needed to buy. Buy everything …
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Larry’s Cross
My coworker is an artist. He makes all different kinds of wood carvings and other art such as framed chicken wire with crystal beads hanging in the window. My other coworker makes t-shirts and my other coworker’s husband makes stained glass. My best friend makes pottery. I like to collect things made by people i …
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 …
2025 Had One More Surprise in Store
Life is full of surprises. You dont get to say “i’ll never miss another day of work” because you dont know what injury, car accident, or illness is in your future thats going to make that statement a promise you cant keep. Situations arise that must be handled. You dont get to choose whether or …
Demolition Day
My original plan with the old chicken pen was to take down the old coop with a drill and a sledgehammer and build the new coop inside. That way, i wouldnt have to take the sides, roof, or buried part of the fencing down, which seemed more complicated to me. Well, that idea got poo …
The Floating Trees
November first of every year our little town ends up with a light up wire christmas tree plugged in at the top of every other pole on the main road. It turns out its the elctric company that does it. It ends up looking like something out of harry potter. In the pitch dark its …
A Glimpse of the Future
Lately the temperature at night has been hovering right around freezing and ive been leaving the greenhouse lights on overnight to keep it a bit warmer in there considering theres two open wall vents that let the outdoor air in even when i close the windows. That means the roses in there have had 24 …
Organizing the Pantry
Each year my mortgage payment goes up around a hundred dollars a month. Im now at the point where living the way im living, im breaking even, not making profit. So i sat down and made some new years resolutions. Budget wise, i need to buckle down for the next 13 years. I decided that …
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 …