Our resident chicken Dumpling has exciting news to share! She has decided to adopt four Easter Egger chicks. See, Dumpling came to us in an order of guinea hens. Twenty-three brothers and sisters that never quite looked like her. She knew something was different but she just couldn’t put her toenail on it. Until they all started to talk. She…
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Garlic. Just saying it’s name perks up my taste buds. To say I like garlic is a lie. To say I love garlic isn’t enough. How about, “Garlic is my hands down favorite herb/vegetable. Ever”. Did you know garlic is an herb AND a vegetable? Just one more reason to love it. “You eat your vegetables Niki Dee”? Yup, had…
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The heat is finally gone and we’ve been enjoying some cooler temperatures. Frost has appeared sporadically with the promise of some snow in our future. I’ve been busy buttoning up the garden beds and dreaming of LOTS of garlic to harvest early next spring. We finished building the temporary guinea hen hotel! Still on the to do list are the…
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Travel. A word that brings music to my ears. But not opera. Oh no, no way. More a mix of indie, folk rock, the 70’s greats and some sporadic head banging stuff cuz I’ve never been much of a pigeon hole person. The invention of the coin-operated laundry machine is ascribed to Harry Greenwald of New York who created Greenwald…
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As Autumn rolls in… slowly… oh so slowly here in our parts, the baking bug has been biting me lately. Or is it those gosh darned stink bugs that have reached locust status? Well, I like to think it’s the call of Fall so we will leave it at that. For those of you that don’t know, our home construction…
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