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A buff brahma bantam and Bug supervise while Scott cleans the coop. The girls are becoming more friendly every day. Chicken coming at ‘ya! Despite Bug’s appearance here, she is one of the most social of our girls. This is Lita showing off her blue earlobes. What are you looking at? I suppose you look [...]
Small by Modern Standards Our home is 1,000 square feet. It feels wonderfully spacious to us, but by modern standards, it’s quite small. In fact, the average home size in US is 2,438 square feet, according to the US Census. To us, though, our “tiny” home is perfect. Although big houses are still the norm, small [...]
The light from a winter sunset is hard to beat. We love the snow for it’s beauty and how it quiets our already serene environment. We also love that snow brings wildlife closer to the house. They’re still cautious, though! Inside, we are working away on more projects. Scott is nearly finished with the bottom [...]
When Seattle had more snow than us, we really started to wonder what was going on. But the snow finally did arrive to the Inland Northwest. The chickens are not as amused by the fluffy white stuff as we are. though! When digging through the freezer, I found some ground elk that a friend had [...]
When cleaning out the coop yesterday morning, we found two small eggs laid outside of the nesting boxes. They were tucked behind the wind block in the coop. That was strange, but what was even weirder was that they had no shell! One egg had a soft membrane that looks like a shell but feels [...]
Congrats to Vicster! She guessed the correct date for our first egg. We started a contest in October of 2011 to see who could guess the date of the first chicken egg. 60 guesses were placed, but Vicster was the winner! For her unsurpassed egg guessing skills, she received an organic cotton Moosicorn Ranch reusable [...]
When I realized that the wild apple tree on our property produces tasty apples, I decided I wanted to try canning apple pie filling. Getting the apples down from the tree proved to be more difficult than I had expected. The tree is quite a way from the house, so I loaded the ladder in [...]
We are very excited to start raising honey bees this spring. We read Bee Keeping for Dummies and signed up for the beekeeping course through the Inland Empire Beekeeping Association and Washington State University. We purchased all of our gear at Tate’s Honey Farm in Spokane. We’re very excited to get started!
