One of the Gidgets did not make it. The chicks seemed fine and then one just puffed up and wobbled a bit. We moved them outside into the sun, thinking they needed more fresh air than they were getting. The sick Gidget drank some water, but then just died. It was sad. [...]
I have been amazingly busy, but I wanted to get these photos out before the weekend. Why? Because I will be taking new ones this weekend!! I bet the chicken babies have really grown.
Well, first of all, one of the chickens got out of the fence. I am assuming she got onto the [...]
Continue reading about Story of the lost chicken…..(has a happy ending)
I am going to post; I have even uploaded the photos. I have just not had time. You will read about the run away chicken, the naming process, the rain we are finally getting and can listen to while it hits the roof, and many other things I am not sure many people read. I [...]
Our chickens have arrived!!! You heard me correctly. We now have chickens at Possum Manor West. We spend the weekend changing a side of the shed into a chicken house, fencing in part of the yard behind the garden, and making both dog, coyote, and raccoon proof. We stapled chicken wire to the [...]
School has started. I think I have nice classes, but then again they might be just on their best behavior. I took a few photos of the trees in our yard. They are turning already!!!
I go back to school tomorrow with mixed feelings. It has been a great summer, and I wish it would not end; but, I do not dread teaching. It is just the dread of getting back into a routine. I like teaching, and really cannot envision doing something else (except maybe black jack dealing), but [...]
My friend Sal is here from New Jersey. I made him slave over a hot stove yesterday to make me pasta sauce…not just any pasta sauce but tomato pesto sauce. We put over a dozen pint size zip lock bags of it into the freezer, and it is to die for. Forget I told you [...]
I grew up in Michigan, and my brother still lives there. When I was in second or third grade we had a program about Michigan, and I was the letter M. I still remember my lines:
“M is for murder, a movie that is, Mackinaw Island and Bridge, mink, motels, manufacturing, and (I slap my [...]
Continue reading about Michigan and an amazingly long blog!! (Lots of photos)