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I’m a little geeky. That may be obvious to most of you. For those who need a bit of convincing, I first made this confession on our Moosicorn blog in my I <3 Info-graphics post. And, as a geek, why wouldn’t I set it up so I can log egg production numbers into into a [...]

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Over the winter I’ve been trying to finish up a lot of interior projects so that as spring comes around we can really focus all of our time on the garden and various outdoor construction projects we have planned. So far… We’ve finished building, painting and hanging all the custom interior chalkboard doors. We built [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Over the past few weeks we re-purposed every available horizontal shop surface, to stage our life’s detritus as we went about reorganizing the storage area. With the storage overhaul complete, the shop is back in action with more space than ever before. It’s so nice to be back – working in the shop is my meditation [...]

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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 [...]