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Friday, June 29, 2018

A project that came too soon

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Three of the bedrooms have carpet, and after a little peek at the corner I knew there were original hardwood floors underneath.  My goal is...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Chickens are finally free range

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They got their first taste of freedom! 16 birds, 2 are males.  

And we finally have nest boxes

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We still have another two months before our birds start to lay, but I'm about a month late getting nest boxes installed in the coop. I ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Where have we been

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Two years ago we decided that we wanted to move to Iowa. I had done a lot of research on cost of living and teacher salaries and came up fo...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Dog was where?!?!

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I've known that Cash was getting up on the table to eat scraps or pull things down to destroy.  But today I learned that he's also ...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Garden 2016

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I decided that we will try a garden again this year, on a much smaller scale.  At this point I'm only sure that we will grow tomatoes, ...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Playing Possum

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This morning the oldest was helping me in the garden and he dragged a trash can over for us to load with dead weeds and grass.  He quickly f...

Chickens in a Car

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Apparently if you leave the back of the car open too long, Dolly and one of her friends will decide to check things out. She was in the...
Monday, February 29, 2016

New predator

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We have lost about 1 chicken a week for the past couple weeks to a predator. I thought it was a fox again, but was surprised that the birds...
Friday, February 19, 2016

An update, a year late

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I know I haven't written in a very long time.  I've thought about it many times but things just changed so much since Faith passed a...