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Holy Sow!

When we headed for bed on Sunday night, it had just started snowing…no worries though.  The weather folks assured us – ”not much accumulation on the coast — about 2 to 4 inches.”  It was still snowing in the morning…

Weathersow is up to her snout in snow!

and it continued to snow well into the afternoon!

Almost a foot of        [....read more]

First Egg!

Remember those little balls of fluff  in the photo I posted way back in May?

Isn't this the cutest little egg?! Each time this hen lays, the egg will get a little bigger until it is "normal" size for that breed of chicken. We don't know which one is laying but she gets a gold star!

Well, they’re practically grown up now and yesterday I found        [....read more]

The Hens Aren't Talking

The chicken mystery remains a mystery…  The hens are acting as though nothing is out of the ordinary so I guess we’ll assume that’s the case.  Of course, you know what they say about assuming!

That's a teeny tiny egg next to a couple of regular eggs and a quarter!

  They’re laying pretty regularly for an “over the hill” group (that’d be over a        [....read more]

Chicken Mystery

You know it can’t be good when your hubby returns from checking on the hens and asks, “How many chickens do we have?”  Of course, I couldn’t be sure.  I spent some time trying to figure it out…How many had we started with?  How many had we lost to the fox.  How many did I sell?  I should know this!  Finally I thought we must’ve        [....read more]

Whirlwind Weeks in Review

Phew!  It’s been a crazy frantic couple of weeks!  I thought so many times about posting but would fall asleep on the couch, wake up in the wee hours of the morning and go to bed.  Not very productive…

On Monday the 3rd, I finished packing & shipped off our first year’s Fiber CSA shares.  I was excited… but anxious at the same time.  At one point        [....read more]