Everyone can break out the shorts and t-shirts: climate change has arrived. “Ha ha,” snort the East Coasters who are still entombed in gray snow. But it’s true, the “norm” of weather doesn’t exist any more. If change is the…
Everyone can break out the shorts and t-shirts: climate change has arrived. “Ha ha,” snort the East Coasters who are still entombed in gray snow. But it’s true, the “norm” of weather doesn’t exist any more. If change is the…
Two visits this weekend I wasn’t expecting: animal and machine. Let’s start with the four-legged variety first. I’ll say this wasn’t totally unexpected. I know our chicken yard is enticing to all sorts of semi-wild animals in the neighborhood. If I…
I don’t know why chickens do the things they do. And with their tiny pea-sized brains, I doubt they do either. For the last few weeks the chickens have been shunning their coop and roosting on top of it, crammed…
Five points for the first reader who can place that quote. Now then, where was I? Yes, we were talking about chickens some days ago and how we’d yet to see an egg. This weekend we got one, precious as…