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I've been trying to let the chickens free range for part of the day so they can get out of their pen, which is mainly dirt, and into the grass. They are pretty funny about it though, because chickens like to stick together, they kind of move like a herd. I open the pen, they eventually wander out (or most of them...usually one is too dumb to ( Read more... )

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My friends and I have a sort of rotating play group on Thursdays and since many of the kids are older than Sam (okay, so many new babies....Sam's in the middle now!) I thought they might like to see the chickens and I offered to host this week ( Read more... )

It's probably my pregnancy hormones and related craziness but the other day I had a near-meltdown over my perceived neglect of the chickies ( Read more... )

Thankfully the chickies have had way less of an eventful life since my last post. They did, inexplicably, escape from the pen on Sunday (well, two of them did) but then we really shored up every opening larger than 2 square inches and they have not gotten out since ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm slightly revitalizing the old blog here to write about my chicken keeping ( Read more... )

My many years at Camp Skyline have been on my mind recently. Partially, I'm sure, because Anthony and I stopped in Mentone on our way home from the wedding and I showed him around camp, partially because of their facebook where on Throwback Thursday's I too often see my old friends, and now because I've been reading Larry's blog of the camp ( Read more... )

firstly, I meant to tell this story about going with Anthony to get a suit and forgot. Renting our tuxes from Men's Wearhouse you get a free tux rental or some money off a suit, and Anthony picked the suit so we went to get it, which was kind of a obnoxious because I'm picky about stuff like that and it seemed to me like we could not find ( Read more... )

I've had all these great post ideas--about us decorating our apartment, about our ill-fated hiking trip on Memorial Day, this random guy that is always tanning in the parking lot, just mentioning that my job is stressful and for one reason or another I have posted NOTHING. But I am posting this! Just because I can! Um...something interesting ( Read more... )