* 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... )

📸 behind the cut....

( 🏡 )

+ 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! :)

( Read more... )

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... )

i am so happy to see the sun! it's chilly, but it's lovely - and as soon as it warms up just a tad, i'm going to sit outside in my shorts and turn my pasty-white legs a little less pasty.

life on the wee homestead is settling into big plans and temporary delays. as far as the barn goes: we're waiting on the scheduler, the permit, the delivery of ( Read more... )

+ barn stuff is moving along and i think we have settled on a plan - at least i hope so. :) what i originally wanted was a barn kit (i've posted pictures before) that would run probably close to forty thousand dollars. i was really trying to justify that expense in a multitude of different ways, but it makes more sense to do what most people out ( Read more... )

chicks have been procured and we're already realizing we overthought a whole lotta stuff. today we're building a brooder box for the garden shed/greenhouse, getting the temp comfortable in there, and moving them from their indoor location to their outdoor location.

we do have one that's not thriving, so she's on probiotics and hourly monitoring/ ( Read more... )

with the family gone to the horse event, it's so STILL and QUITE 'round here. i enjoyed it for a little while, but now i just feel lonely and want them back. come home, family....come home!

the dogs also feel their absence, with yoti the rescue watching through the front window for the car and her girl; nandor the relentless misses his dad; kim ( Read more... )