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farm

The Chicken Taj Mahal Gets a Fence

26 June 2008

Our egg fac­to­ries con­tinue to receive far too much atten­tion and far too many lux­u­ries. Espe­cially con­sid­er­ing they haven’t pro­duced a sin­gle egg yet.
Over the week­end we built a fence to sur­round the Chicken Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed so much to keep any­thing out as to keep the chick­ens in. Chick­ens are a major […]

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First Sign of Spring

29 April 2008

lousy photo — i took it in the barn at twilight.

nonethe­less — he’s the first swal­low of spring.

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Busy Weekend Down on the Farm

29 April 2008

We did way too much farm stuff this week­end.
We’ve known that the chicken coop needed work before it could house the new lay­ing flock. We got car­ried away. Or rather the chicken coop got car­ried away. We moved it from behind the barn out to the house-side edge of the pas­ture. We’ll be able to […]

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