The coyotes were on the neighbor’s property tonight. Right as the sun set they came running in yipping and hollering like excited teenagers out on the town. They were fresh and full of energy. I was not in the mood. I was finishing up chores. Normally i’d go in the house and wait them out, …
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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
Planting a Second Mulberry Tree
Now that the chicken pen was built it was up to me to plant the trees that i had an opportunity to have help with but shifted off due to something else being more important and requiring finished first. I was way more confident that i could dig holes for trees than i was that …
Constructing the Second Chicken Pen
I should probably start at the beginning. The chicken coop was about 5 and a half years old at the point where it began sagging around the nesting box area and pieces of wood on the front of it as well as parts of the door began falling off. I knew the carpenter ants had …
The Chickens and Their Jack-O-Lantern
I saw a trend floating around the internet where you could take a screw driver and poke out the outline of a jack-o-lantern face and then give the pumpkin to your chickens and let them go to town carving a pumpkin for halloween. Wherever they could smell the contents of the gourd or pumpkin they …
This Year’s Orb Weavers
Unfortunately it was an absolutely prolific breeding year for the praying mantises. This year’s praying mantises were almost exclusively male so hopefully next year will be a less prolific year for these iron fisted demons but this year it was a full time job killing 5 or 6 praying mantises a day just in the …
Antique Turkish Pepper Grinder
I just dont understand why we bother inventing newer and less efficient ways of doing things. Does your pepper grinder render peppercorns ground this finely? All i had to do was turn the little handle at the top and it made pepper dust.
Vegan Vodka Pasta Sauce
It was delicious and there was no cream!
Roses
These roses are meant to be a deep maroon but must reside in the greenhouse due to requiring protection from biblical amounts of grasshoppers. im hoping once i bring the lights down closer those roses will darken up considerably, but without fail they still smell amazing, especially the blush colored ones.