Yep, you guessed it, I’m not in the USA anymore! Thanks to my wonderful husband’s choice of career, he and I get to spend the next five weeks in the Philippines! Woo-hoo! And yes, this means I found qualified housesitters. More on that lovely pair in the upcoming days. 🙂 Our living accomodations here are excellent.… Read More Living above a river, eating mangoes, and swatting mosquitoes
The obvious downside to me not having an office job anymore is the drop in disposable income that went along with that. So, when I need things for the animals, I can’t just go buy them – I have to be creative. In spite of that, I am very happy with the supplies I have… Read More Repurposing old stuff, and how to do it
Yikes! I don’t mind snakes, but the sheer numbers we found today is a little alarming. Thankfully they are small enough that they likely just hatched, and they will be moving along to find their own hunting ground in the VERY near future. (Makes me wonder where the nest was… I think I’ll be looking for… Read More Snakes in the yard!
Selling fireworks was exhausting! I was so tired after my 10 days or so of selling them that I didn’t even set mine off until the 8th. I got to try Ground Bloomflowers, which are pretty cool, they spin on the ground and make a pyramid shape of fire that changes color. Gyro Blooms do… Read More Fireworks, when the selling is over
I went to water the garden today and saw that the wild rabbits (or something similar) had eaten into my cabbages. They aren’t as large as I’d like yet, but I picked the one remaining intact one so I could have one that wasn’t already nibbled on. 🙂 Here’s a pic of it in my… Read More The first harvest!
Selling fireworks is fun. Dealing with people who purchase fireworks – not so much. My church does a fundraiser every year by selling fireworks. We price our fireworks lower than anyone else, and sell a BOATLOAD of them. Sparklers, fountains, spinners, snakes, smoke balls, poppers, you name it. Even Uncle Sam hats! Over the two-week… Read More Selling fireworks, and applying it to backyard farming
Hey, that rhymes! Seriously though, I got bitten by a pullet tonight. Not pecked – bitten. I didn’t know they knew how to do that! The chickens have been on lockdown for the past three days in the hope of getting them to roost in the coop instead of the trees. But three days wasn’t… Read More Bitten by a chicken
We have an out of town visitor in our house! Visitors are always fun. And sometimes they point out the obvious. In this case, the obvious is that there are many ways to catch a chicken. My husband goes about it very carefully. He is extremely concerned about hurting the chicken. He finds the chicken… Read More The many ways to catch a chicken
One of the things I try to do is reuse things. It keeps us from having to buy new stuff, and reduces the amount of waste we produce. Sure, recycling is great, but I like it best when i can recycle within my own home. Pickle juice is just one of those things I reuse, but… Read More Pickle juice!
All the meat chickens are in the fridge/freezer, and I have done up my numbers (cost, poundage, etc) to share. (Sorry for the formatting stuff, it looks fine in the edit screen, but obviously not so fine when it’s live.) In March we purchased 4 Rhode Island Red day-olds and 2 Americauna day-olds. So the… Read More Meat chickens are in the freezer – cost analysis
Ranting About Rectangles 