Chickens
Every time I clean out the chicken coop, I marvel at how they’ve managed to get wood shavings EVERYWHERE. Now I know why:
I took these photos yesterday but between one thing (Strowger ;)) and another (getting obsessed about doing something pointless & time-consuming that wasn’t on my to-do list), I didn’t get around to posting them. However, thankfully it looks just the same out there today – just less sunny and more icy – so I can [...]
In a similar vein to the silliness earlier in the week….
(A chicken-related parody of #FirstWorldProblems inspired by boiling too fresh eggs for our egg mayo lunch.) My eggs are too fresh to make good-hard boiled eggs today. #ChickenOwnerProblems The recipe calls for one medium egg but I only have extra-large and larger. #ChickenOwnerProblems I have too many eggs to fit in my egg holder. #ChickenOwnerProblems [...]
My Twitter feed today has been full of nearly squished chickens, roofs flying off sheds, greenhouses half blown away and house roof damage but despite living near a lot of very tall trees, this was the extent of the damage we experienced in yesterday/last night’s gales: Because we live next to woodland, wind always sounds [...]




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