Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hahahaha. Okay, lousy photo right now, but never fear, I am sure we will get many many many more in the days to come. We got six Barred Rock pullets & they are currently in a bin, under a heat lamp, in our bathroom. We’ll probably move them to the living room tonight, but we [...]
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mr. Wolf and I did a quick inventory while we carpooled to work this morning. Here’s what we have planted so far: 3 blueberry bushes (plan to get at least 3 more) 1 peach tree 2 cherry trees 1 fig tree several strawberry plants 3 grapevines (table grapes) Additionally, I have garlic and onions waiting [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
stock photo — these aren’t my chickens! We have: 1 large cardboard box (recycled, yay!) 1 roll of screen to go over the top, so they don’t flutter out and hide under the couch 1 heat lamp 1 bag of wood shavings 1 bag of feed 1 waterer 1 feeder Now we just need the [...]
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Neighbor kitty, Oliver, likes our yard.
Monday, September 8, 2008
This house we moved to is out in the sticks, but not actually. It’s, like, fake-rural. We live right off a relatively busy highway, but we have a little under half an acre and it’s a dead-end street with not too many houses. The bugs like it here. We have wasps building nests way up [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My husband rules. The “before” photo can be seen in this post, and you can sort of see a bit of the fence there too. He tore out all those weeds and that side portion of the fence. That really opened up our space! There’s still a corner to go… behind where I was standing [...]
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It’s starting to feel more like home, though it’s still way too easy to stub a toe in the dark! Last weekend we had quite a spectacular thunderstorm and I stayed awake as long as I could on Saturday to watch the sky light up. This week I rolled out plopped down the welcome mat: [...]
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This week went by in a blur… I’m not sure we did much besides come home at the end of the workday and collapse. Since we’re anticipating a visit from Mama and Papa Wolf, we have to get our guest room in order. Today we got some curtains hung, which will also help cut down [...]
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In the previous post, I shared a photo of the weedy yard… but not everything has been lost during the long vacancy of this house. There are two three or four big hazelnut trees providing a partial noise and privacy barrier along highway 20. (By the way, I am often teased for saying “the 20″ [...]
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