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Car Keys – The Eternal Search and.. wait, that’s going to be HOW MUCH?!

Posted by Erin D. on January 23, 2012 in Failures, Housing, Vignette

I mentioned the other day how The Engineir was out cleaning the garage so I could once again park inside. My half of the garage was occupied by my motorcycle over the summer, and other detritus accumulated around it since the space wasn’t being fully used. Piles of recycling, things I’d cleaned out of my [...]

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A Well-Intentioned Lie

Posted by Erin D. on October 15, 2011 in Chickens, Cleaning Products, Community, Eggs, Failures, Food, Gardening, Goals, Habits, Household, Lifestyle, Local Farms, Mental Well-Being, Musing, Personal Responsibility, Planning, Stress, Sustainability, Toxins, Vegetarian

So, hi. I know it’s been since spring that I wrote anything here, and for that I apologize. A few of you have left emails and comments asking if I was ok – I am. Thanks. What I have been, however, is relatively depressed and unmotivated, struggling with day-to-day tasks and not having much energy [...]

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Whatever Shall We Do, Wherever Shall We Go?

Posted by Erin D. on May 27, 2011 in Chickens, Cow Share, Eggs, Food, Health, Planning, Politics

For over a year, we’ve been buying our milk through a “herd share,” which, thanks to anti-food-sovereignty legislation (you could say it’s health and safety legislation, but that’s what it amounts to – anti-food-sovereignty) is the only way to legally obtain raw milk in Michigan – to own the cows. One can’t simply buy the [...]

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Optimistic Friday

Posted by Erin D. on May 6, 2011 in Chickens, Farmers' Markets, Food, Mental Well-Being, Mom

It’s a beautiful day out. I don’t want to talk about how Chickenhead was also killed night before last, or how The Engineir very thoughtfully tried to protect me from seeing her ravaged body by burying her before I woke up, or how I had to see it for myself to see if there were [...]

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And then, there were four

Posted by Erin D. on May 3, 2011 in Chickens

This morning, I hauled out a fifty-pound bag of scratch grain to the chickens. As I was getting it awkwardly dumped into its bin, four of the girls eagerly clucked and chuckled around me. I figured the fifth was inside the coop laying, as it was right around the time they tend to produce their [...]

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