I used to count the feet. At sundown all the chickens march into the chicken coop and hop onto the roost to put themselves to bed. I go out a little bit later with a flashlight to close the door of the chicken coop so that nothing would get at them at night. Every night [...]
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I was talking about resolutions the other day and Eric asked me incredulously if I actually sit down and make resolutions every year. I don’t, but I do spend time at the end of the year to think about things I’d like to do and things I’d like to change. These then are the sorts [...]
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(Part One, Part Two, Part Three) So you’re probably thinking, “Hey Laura, it’s been a really super long time since you wrote about that shed/chicken coop of yours. Surely you’ve made some progress that you could write about. Surely the shed isn’t just sitting there in your yard, incomplete, in the rain, taunting you with [...]
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Update: Squeaker has been adopted! Thank you for all the interest! Regular readers: forgive the slight blog misuse. I was going to do a plain old HTML page for this, but blogs just make things easier these days, and I am lazy. We rescued two tiny abandoned kittens from a feral cat colony living outside [...]
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(Part One, Part Two) A number of years back the roller on a drawer broke in our old refrigerator. This wasn’t that big a deal; the fridge still worked, but it was kind of a pain that the drawer didn’t open easily. But since the fridge was old, and cranky, and used a lot of [...]
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