Monthly Archives: February 2014

Victory!

It took two nights of older son grabbing hens and shoving them in the coop door, but all but one of them figured it out tonight! The last one left in the run looked a little lost and bewildered. She … Continue reading

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There’s something in my field…

We’re watching curling. The dog is watching those things (that would be the chickens) in *his* field. He isn’t sure what they are, but they’re really disturbing him. .

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Happy St. Valentine’s feast day!

This is what we did for Valentine’s Day. Isn’t he romantic? If you said, “Aww… I wish my husband would do that!” Then you, too, might be called to farming. If you said, “Wow, those people are weird…” Then we’d … Continue reading

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The first chickens

In the middle of yet more sleet, the first chickens made it to the farm! They looked pretty bedraggled last night, but they were literally bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning. And we got our very first egg. Remarkably exciting!

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Snow… Again

Some of you consider snow normal. Here in southeast Virginia, it is not. This was our second snowstorm of the year; schools were shut down for several days.

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