First there was one chicken, Ducky. She was given to us by a friend who’s chickens were pecking poor Ducky to bits while she molted and recovered from a possum bite. The life of a chicken isn’t kind, my friends.…
Monthly Archives: January 2014
The Great Chicken Adventure
Posted in Gardening Tagged with: americauna, backyard chickens, CH, chickens, coop, eggs, hens, laying eggs, scratch
Little Girls and Tea Parties
Where does it come from, the compelling urge for young girls to act as Victorian social hosts? Child Harbat hasn’t seen Downtown Abbey yet she adores a china tea set she got for Christmas and has hosted several soirees at…
Unstructured Time
What was my favorite part about last weekend? It was the unstructured time I spent in the garden with Number Two as he found Items of Interest and explored. Once you get in the habit of “things to be done”…
Posted in Gardening, Parenting, Writing Tagged with: character, garden, manu chao, number two, playing, productivity, time
Finding Your Roots
In elementary school we were encouraged to wear the ethnic costume of our ancestors. This is the true measure of how ours is a country of immigrants–everyone can always say they are from somewhere else, with the exception of the…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: ancestry, bagpipes, Balmoral, CH, heritage, kilt, MacPherson, Robertson, scottish, smallpipes
Happy New Year!
Here’s my resolution, straight up and unfiltered: more better writing. I mean more in the quantity way, better in the quality way, and more better in the mo’ bettah way. First, this means an increase in frequency since, after all,…
