Warmth

Spring has definitely arrived in the NEK. And just two days before meteorological summer begins! The chickens have been wandering all over, happily digging through the yard for bugs and resting in the shade when it gets too …

Robbin’ Leach

It kinda feels like I’ve been a font of negativity on here lately, so I was loath to make this post until I ran through the last few entries and saw that they weren’t necessarily covering all terrible …

Whirlwind vs. Tornado

One is entertainingly tricky, the other requires sheltering in place. And because there’s no Fujita Scale for life, it can be difficult to tell when one starts to escalate into the other. I mentioned a while back that …

Diplomacy

I didn’t mention this earlier because I don’t like advertising to the world when I’m going to have an empty house, but we took our trip up to Quebec City this past weekend. And, so as not to …

Hen’s Fury

This damn chicken… …is about to take two rounds to the back of the head if she doesn’t calm down. Susie here has gone full attack mode on me a few times now, with the most recent one …

Decade

Man, it’s been a week since I posted here, hasn’t it? So I’ve either been ridiculously busy or trying like hell to force relax in between my various and sundry obligations. So today’s is Daphne’s 10th birthday! Hard …