It’s plastic-free July! Have you checked in on your plastic usage lately? James and I haven’t made it to the Asian market yet to search out tofu making equipment, but we did eliminate a different big plastic item from near daily use: bike water bottles. Or if you want to get fancy and French because …
Tag: Chickens
Broody
Ethel when she isn't Broody Ethel’s biological clock has decided to tell her she needs to stop laying eggs and hatch some instead. So she’s gone broody. It doesn’t matter that we have no rooster and the eggs will never hatch, her hormones win out. First she sat on her egg, but we took it …
Farewell Elinor
March 30th was Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood’s hatch day marking eight years. On Friday we had to say goodbye to Elinor. Ever since I mentioned about helping her up the ladder into the coop a couple months ago, she’s been in a very slow decline. We noticed her breathing was a bit labored, indicating she …
Weather Purgatory
Some weeks feel interminably long and this was one of them. I can’t even say why, but James and my coworkers and students in the library were also lamenting the very long week. Sia, who can't see where she is most of the time Maybe it’s because the weather is stuck in between seasons. I …
No Spring Chicken
Our one week of winter was cold while it lasted. Now this past week has been mostly above freezing during the day and not much below freezing at night. The outdoor skating rinks that the city finally opened a week ago are closed already because they are a soupy mess. Even the National Pond Hockey …
