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In the gloaming
2008-04-01 06:22:00 Last night I took a walk during that time between afternoon and dusk. When it’s no longer really daylight but not really evening either - the gloaming I think they call it. I walked down to end of our street, it dead ends about 1.25 miles from our house. I’ve driven down there a couple ...
Crazy ideas
2008-03-31 16:34:00 This is Prico. Prico is currently looking for a new home. He’s an 8 year old unregistered paint gelding that needs a little refresher work. A friend of a friend of ours is selling him because she doesn’t have the time that he needs. And she wants a very small amount for him. And I, being the ... More About: Ideas , Crazy
1 Month Update
2008-03-31 06:07:00 Sorry that it’s been so slow on the blogging around here. It’s not that I don’t have anything to write about, more that there’s so much going on that’s noteworthy and I’m working so many hours, that when I sit down at night to write, I can’t figure out where to start. Then I dither ... More About: Update , Month
Out Like a Lion
2008-03-28 16:51:00 I honestly can’t remember if March came in like a lamb this year. I think so, but then again we were in the midst of moving and that whole first week is a blur. Either way, March is definitely going out like a lion around here. It was snowing last night when I got home, and ... More About: Lion
Growing Challenge: Off we go
2008-03-27 06:17:00 What a crazy week around here! It’s just been crazy busy at work for me, but low key for Mike. The weather has been awful, so they’ve been a bit slow. Bummer for the company, but nice for him. I on the other hand feel like I haven’t been able to take a deep breath ... More About: Challenge , Growing
Dark Days 2008: Recap #6
2008-03-26 06:55:00 It’s been a busy two weeks around here. Lots of house work, outside work, unpacking and regular life. Our local eating has been limited to what’s in the freezer and pantry and the few things that I’ve been able to find at the store up here (potatoes, onions, garlic, pasta). Not that we’ve been deprived ... More About: Dark , Recap , Days , Dark Days , 2008
Recap Delayed
2008-03-25 01:07:00 Well, after a busy weekend and now a crazy day at work I’ve got a work function tonight. Look for the recap post to go up tomorrow. Keep it up for one more week through the challenge end on March 31st! The last recap post will be next weekend, April 7. Thanks! More About: Recap
Return to Sender?
2008-03-21 06:56:00 Normally I’m someone that gives the US Postal Service a lot of credit. They move a lot of mail, don’t charge that much and are pretty dang reliable. But this week has really tried my patience. We filed our change of address notice in early February, online. We got confirmation of it by mail a week ... More About: Return , Sender
Their First Week
2008-03-20 05:24:00 I asked the peepers to smile pretty for a one week anniversary photo, but they all said “nah, talk to my back.” Our first week has come and gone and so far so good. Everyone is getting cute little wing feathers and there’s a bit more running and flapping then sleeping. So far we’ve had ... More About: Week
Lucky Penny
2008-03-19 05:39:00 Confession time. We have a bird crazy puppy problem around here. We’ve never trusted Jake around the hens, as he’s a bit too interested in them, if you know what I mean. Now that we don’t have them in a run or him inside a fence, it’s been a bit of a balancing act making ... More About: Lucky , Penny
On the Radio
2008-03-17 19:40:00 If you’re in the Seattle area, I’ll be on the radio Wednesday morning at 6:40 am on 94.1 KMPS. Randy, of the Waking Crew, wants to talk chicken. And apparently he thinks I know something worth talking about. If you’re not local to Seattle, it seems that you can actually listen live online as well (just ... More About: Radio
Farm Tour
2008-03-17 05:15:00 I was hoping to be writing tonight about our mega dog fence project, but unfortunately the concrete didn’t set fast enough for us to stretch wire today. So maybe next weekend… Until then the dogs are still stuck in the house with us when we’re homeand in the barn when we go to work. If ... More About: Tour , Farm
Daily Photo: Gift to self
2008-03-15 06:22:00 Some people buy themselves furniture, flowers, candles or other niceties as housewarming presents. Not me I guess. The very first thing I bought “for the new house” was a pair of pig farmers for me. I have a pair of Wellingtons (traditional black), but they came free with the last house and are about 2 sizes ... More About: Photo , Daily , Gift
The pitter-patter of little feet
2008-03-14 21:08:00 The four-toed kind that is… What’s a crazy chicken lady to do when she’s only got 4 hens but 3.5 acres of land? Why buy 10 chicks on a whim of course. Yesterday we got home on the train at 8:45 am. Drove to the house, changed our clothes and headed up to Skagit Farm ... More About: Feet
Dark Days 2008: Recap #5
2008-03-14 05:10:00 There’s been quite a bit of local cooking going on around here since we moved in, there just hasn’t been time to write about it. Meals have included Kahula Pork Roast (courtesy of Sugar Creek Farm), roast chicken, pork chops, tenderloin steaks and pasta with pesto. Most of those were accompanied by veggies from the ... More About: Dark , Recap , Days , Dark Days , 2008
Whitefish - What a weekend
2008-03-13 05:47:00 We had a wonderful weekend in Whitefish, or at least I think everyone had as nice a time as I did. We didn’t have any fresh snow except for a scant inch yesterday. So unusually for this group we spent a lot of time on the groomers. But going fast has it’s merits too. The mountain ... More About: Weekend
Happy Birthday!
2008-03-07 22:23:00 Today is my 30th birthday. And I’m apparently a weirdo because instead of being upset and depressed about it, I’m actually quite happy to be 30. Not sure why. Maybe it just feels like I’m finally an adult? Or maybe because Mike is a decade plus older than I, as are most of our friends, ... More About: Happy , Birthday , Happy Birthday
Odds and Ends
2008-03-07 07:12:00 What’s a farm house without a percolating coffee pot? Mike and I have used a french press for years. But it has disadvantages. Namely that it doesn’t make that much coffee, you have to boil the water first and it doesn’t keep it hot for long. Now that we’re officially kicking the Starbucks habit because ... More About: Odds , Ends
Snug as Bugs
2008-03-05 21:04:00 Last night was quite cold for this area, colder than it’s been in more than a month. I was a bit concerned about the girls as at the old house they lived the lives of pampered pets and had a heat lamp on cold nights. But this morning when I went out to check on ... More About: Bugs
From ghetto to shack-tabulous
2008-03-03 16:05:00 Because the farm, can I call it a farm if it’s only 3.46 acres?, has 5 outbuildings on it and one seemed well suited to becoming a new chicken home, we decided not to move the coop up here. Plus, Mike wasn’t confident that we could successfully get it here since all the main routes ... More About: Ghetto , Shack
First Impressions
2008-03-03 07:01:00 We did it. We successfully packed and moved out of our city house by 5:00 pm on Friday. We then drove 15 miles north and unloaded, with the help of many of our friends, at the new house. All that prep work and the unloading of the truck was done in 4 hours. Always amazes ... More About: First Impressions , Impressions
The End of an Era
2008-02-28 06:18:00 For eighteen months I’ve been writing here about city chickens and living locally in the city. Now that era is coming to a close. This will be my last post as the Urban Hennery and I’m a bit sad about it. The hens will no longer be downtown girls, but instead country girls. I’ll no ...
Welding
2008-02-27 05:54:00 First of all, a big thank you to Ellen, Farm Mom and Kim for their posts this weekend - I definitely appreciate the help and they all did a fantastic job! If they missed you, blame it on me as I provided the list and guidelines for the recaps. I’m going to edit Ellen’s post ... More About: Welding
Dark Days 2008 Week #4: The East
2008-02-24 22:56:00 It’s Kim, filling in for the East this week. I feel like a bit of a heretic making the update this time around, as I’ve had my least-inspired cooking period yet. My meals still contain lots of local foods, though, and I feel re-energized by getting a peek at what everyone else is up to. My ... More About: Dark , Week , Days , Dark Days
Dark Days Challenge - 2008 Recap #4 West
2008-02-24 22:43:00 Hello everyone! Ellen from The Daily Grind here! I am excited to be the Guest Writer of the West this week (makes me sound like the Wicked Witch!). It looks like a few of you regulars are missing this week, so if I missed you, please leave a comment here or on my blog and ... More About: Dark , Recap , Challenge , Days
Dark Days Challenge-2008 Recap #4 Middle
2008-02-24 22:05:00 Hi Everyone this is Angie from Children in the Corn and I’ll be recapping the middle this week. It seems we’re a little light this week, so if I missed a post, just leave a comment here or at my blog and I’ll make sure to get you in here. After eating 6 servings of oatmeal that ... More About: Dark , Middle , Recap , Challenge , Days
Beautiful Pottery
2008-02-24 07:00:00 I had a great time at the Flower & Garden show today. I talked to a lot of people about gardening and city chickens. The show gardens were amazing as always. My favorite was the one done by Seattle Urban Farm Company - they even had chickens in a cute, totally impractical little coop. Then I ... More About: Beautiful , Pottery
The biggest stack of paperwork I?ve ever seen
2008-02-23 06:49:00 was signed between 3 and 4 pm today. And once we sign another 10 sheets or so on Monday to sell our house all we’re waiting for is everything to be funded and recorded. OMG we’re really buying a farm! We’re very excited. Everything went as planned, although the changes in financing caused by the sub-prime ...
Growing Challenge: Garden Plan v2
2008-02-22 08:06:00 I missed last week for the growing challenge - not sure what happened there. I thought I’d use this week to talk some more about our garden plan. Trying to arrive at an actual layout, now that we’ve got seeds and starts coming, is intimidating! I grew up with my grandfather and my mother both keeping ... More About: Garden , Challenge , Growing , Plan
Slowly Slowly Slowly
More articles from this author:2008-02-21 06:53:00 Sorry the blogging is slow. I feel like everything is in slow motion, including thinking of things to write. We’re in that slow motion phase of big changes. The part where you feel like you’re just waiting and time is moving so slowly and the moment will never come and you’ve got plenty of time ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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