Tuesday night, Dan (thirteen) came charging upstairs after his nightly visit out to the chickenhouse to gather the eggs. “There was a huge snake wrapped around one of the chickens,” [...]
I thought those of you who enjoyed the “cupcakes that look like vegetables” post from last summer might like this week’s Family Day project: the Fairy Castle Cake. Ours is a [...]
Because there’s MORE TO DO outside. I’m writing and speaking as usual, but as summer gets underway, things that have to be done on the farm multiply. Most recently, peaches had to be [...]
The early strawberries are in. So I thought I’d give you Meme’s strawberry shortcake recipe (Meme was my mother’s foster mother, a Depression-era chicken farmer, and an amazing [...]
This morning Dan found the biggest egg ever in the nesting boxes. Not just an egg. An EGG. That’s ONE egg in the pan. Somewhere out there, a chicken is lying down to recover.
This is what you do on a holiday week: hitch the Demon Pony (who has been ground-driven up until now) to the cart and work on those actual driving skills. This is the Demon Pony, otherwise known [...]
Mom (chef) and Chris (sous chef)… The gourmet marshmallows (essential part of sweet potato casserole)… Piefest 2009… Mmmm… Grammy and Pawpaw… All four kids in one [...]
Sad week: we had to take down the giant maple tree between the house and my chicken shed office. The tree was planted by my mother’s foster parents before she was born, so it’s [...]
