[i have been working on this entry since 6:30 a.m. sheesh!]

+ daughter child was close to six or seven before we let her really watch television/videos or have any sort of screen time, and even then it was ferociously limited. yeah, i was that parent. lol she complains a bit now because kimjoy is not close to six or seven and she gets television ( Read more... )

~ lucy ricardo is not doing as well as i'd hoped - but this seems like something she'll recover from. poor old girl has trouble walking in the mornings (stiffness? side effects from a chicken heart attack? mites? dengue fever?) and seems content to just stand about, so this morning we put her in a little coop with food and water for rest and ( Read more... )

to say i'm gutted by the election would be an understatement of epic proportions; the dirty, ugly underbelly continues to slither along unabated for another four years and at this point, i wonder if it's even possible for us to mend our fractured society or if we're just permanently fucked.

when i woke up on the sixth, i read the results and ( Read more... )

At least one of the girls is earning her keep. By my estimations, this is a $900 egg. 😆


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* yesterday, there was chicken drama. one of the girls got her leg caught between two boards on their wishing well perch. there was flapping and squawking, then she just hung there with her wings out. o.O luckily, i was out there to rescue her...and i was SURE she had broken her leg with all the limping going on.

she wanted to just sit and recover ( Read more... )

let's focus on the positive instead of me launching into a long-winded entry on how i HATE this time of the month with the bill paying and the budgeting and the trying to figure out how to live a champagne life on a stella artois income. IF i were going to write about the pissy, i'd also include a rant and rave about how high our electric bills are ( Read more... )

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+ i finally got to see the northern lights! we had such a spectacular show for two nights - one night we had all the colors and the next night we had a lot of movement and shimmering and dancing in the sky. i've always wondered what indigenous people thought when they saw them, but really didn't understand how scary and amazing they would be to ( Read more... )

photos of the chickens for z! :)

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my "happy light" arrived friday and i've had it on quite a bit since then since the weather has been composed of lots of clouds, lots of grey, and lots of drizzle. while i appreciate any and all bright light right now, i was hoping for more of a hard hit of "it feels like sunshine!"

oh, well. tuesday and wednesday are sunny days and i'm going to ( Read more... )