I’ve been depressed for three days now, which is unusual for me, so I’m going to the beach to collect some negative ions from the ocean. There is so much road construction in this state right now that I expect I’ll end up at Owen Beach, which is on Puget Sound, not on the Pacific […]
Our June 17th EVER NEW Podcast will be Unprecedented and Spectacular. We have eight special guests confirmed and eager to REMEMBER DeFOREST KELLEY. Our special guests for this “DE DAY” EVENT will be Amy Ulen, Denise and Michael Okida, Dan Madsen, Larry Nemecek, T.Rick Jones, Thorsten Walch, and Michelle Campbell. The link to the
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I was planning to go out and sit in the chicken pen today and get some video of the chicks climbing all over me, but it’s so chilly out there right now that I even built a fire in the firepit to raise the temperature in a corner of their enclosure some. They’re all out
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This is Graduation month for several people I know, love, and admire. My niece Casey Hope McNiven just completed her Masters in Education, my UW dentist completes her Dental School training this week, and Abbie McCrane will be graduating this month, too. Abbie’s degree is in Education K-8. Plus there are all the
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WOO HOO! I’m having my best month ever. From May 15th to now I’ve made just over $10,000 as a writer for hire. Exhausting but exhilarating! And I’m still not finished with all the assignments, which have yet to be billed for! Best of all, the client (a regular) remains deliriously happy! Of course,
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Ages ago, I read that chickens will peck to death another chicken that is bleeding, which is why the horrible practice of de-beaking chickens became a thing in factory farms where chickens are kept in close confinement. I would never debeak my chicks. It isn’t even suggested for people with fewer than 50 chickens,
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Henhouse Interior for Now, May 17, 2023 I have spent almost two entire days, morning to sunset, in the enclosed hen pen, sitting with the chicks while they adapt to being outside critters. Doing so has helped them decide I’m a legitimate part of their flock, so now when I go out, two or
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Half (six) of my twelve chicks are four weeks old this weekend. The other six are probably about a week younger. All of them have been outside in Hope’s “dog run” for the past three days during the warmth of the days, so they’re practicing their flying skills, their dust-bathing skills and their jostling skills.
Day One — before the Extreme Makeover The fence in the foregound and all along the side where the goats are went in on Monday Days 2 and 3 — Repainted the Hen House and added the rest of the roof framing and wiring Day 4 — Framed and Wired the front of
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My brain was in rescue mode last night, apparently! I had three rescue dreams over the course of eight hours. I’ll probably need a rescue nap today, as a result! LONGEST DREAM The longest dream happened on an ocean beach above which, on the land facing the ocean, was a prominent bluff.
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