Archive for April, 2009
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When Huey doesn’t cut it, you call in the pros
Monday, April 27th, 2009
I love Huey Lewis, I do, but come to think of it, Fore! isn’t such a good album. Sports is WAYYYY better. Maybe if we listened to Sports before we started on the chicken coop we would have been in better shape. As it turns out a lot of our lumber wasn’t straight and the floor was out of square. Our typical mantra of “the chickens won’t notice” had been working all along, but Taryn’s dad assured us that while the chickens probably wouldn’t notice that the floor wasn’t square, the walls certainly would…
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Status Chick
Monday, April 27th, 2009
This is a video of the chicks being chicks at three days old with the cover off of the brooder.
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This is the post office calling…
Monday, April 27th, 2009
…Our friend Joe monitored the box in the back seat, and we headed to the city. Once I had dropped everyone off I moved the box up front and into the passengers seat floor area. I put on the heat with emphasis on the floor vents and cranked it up. The car was disgustingly hot. I drove the last half hour of the trip without a shirt on (which I think is illegal) because it was just becoming too much to deal with…
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Potatoes the lazy way
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
…As interesting as all this history is, why do you want to bother growing another thing in your garden to sop up your precious little time? Another bed to weed, tend, and monitor? And who grows potatoes anyway? Well, as unfathomable as it may seem, those ancient farmers were a lot busier than we are today, and generally with tasks that literally were a matter of life and death (think: food, water, shelter, security) and they weren’t eager to add another chore for themselves either. Which is why the lazy-bed method worked out perfectly: there is virtually NO WORK to be done after sowing. Yep, none. Leave it, harvest potatoes when hungry…