Life is Good
As I type this, I’m sitting on the grass in the chicken yard, watching the girls hunting and scratching and pecking. There’s a pretty good wind up that’s ruffling and blowing their pants feathers around, and which occasionally freaks them out just a bit when it gusts up strongly. They’re testing out their wings, leaping [...]
Very High Levels of What, Now?
First, please accept my apologies for the months of blog neglect. I hope the following story will help make up for it. The company I work for is filled with brilliant, clever, amazing, witty and extremely funny people. The banter in our Jabber conversations usually has me laughing out loud throughout the day, and it [...]
Kombucha Brewing
Thus far, great success. The kombucha mother is dutifully cranking out three gallons of delicious, vaguely apple-cider-flavored beverage every week – and it’s awesome. Right out of the brewing vessel, it is quite mellow, a tiny, tiny bit sweet and a little tingly, but not fully-carbonated in a bubble right up on your tongue kind [...]
Those Awkward Teenage Years
These chickens have grown so stinking fast, I cannot believe my eyes. Less than a month ago, they were tiny little balls of fluff like this: At two to three weeks of age, they were absolutely gawky – fuzz and feathers poking up everywhere, all gangly and weird-looking: Today, they are fully-formed and feathered miniature [...]
Raised Beds
That’s quite the expanse of garden. We’re so lucky to have it, but boy is it turning out to be a lot of work. I’d romanticized the “setup” phase of our first garden so much in my head, and, in the process, had completely forgotten I have a fussy lower back. Gardening is all about [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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