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 [...]
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 [...]
Growth and Life and Death
The five baby girls are all doing very well – their wings are about two-thirds fledged, and they’re probably twice as tall as they were less than a week ago. It’s astounding how quickly they’re growing up. They have absolutely ridiculous sprouts where their tail feathers will soon be, and they’re strutting around and scratching [...]
Gardens and Seed Flats & Chickens (Oh my)
The babies have become much more coordinated over the last couple of days, and are beginning to express instinctive behaviors such as scratching and flapping – although they are completely confused by both. One girl, the largest and oddest looking, started standing on large pieces of greens yesterday and scratching with her feet to rip [...]
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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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