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Twitterpated!
When we moved out here, I set up our bird feeders next to a giant Rose of Sharon bush, across the driveway from the kitchen window. I can see all the activity at the feeders while I’m puttering in the...
View ArticleLife Around the New Place
It’s interesting, the changes from living in a thoroughly suburban area near major roads and a freeway to moving to what amounts to a suburban-style strip surrounded by farms and woodland, even though...
View ArticleEggs!
I found eggs today! Okay, that’s not amazing, considering I have five chickens who lay me eggs on a regular basis. However, the eggs I found today were not nice brown chicken eggs, nor were they in my...
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We have babies!
The robin eggs have hatched. Weirdly, I only found one little tiny piece of shell under the bush, even though I’m sure I peeked in the nest very very shortly after the hatching. My guess is that momma...
View ArticleThings keep rolling even when I’m not…
I’ve been sick for over two solid weeks now. I came down with my husband’s cold the Saturday I was in Boise for my second cousin’s graduation. And then it just hung on. Coughing, lost voice, fatigue,...
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Birds, Birds, Everywhere
The baby robins have fledged. They sure grew quickly! This was taken June 4th. Little more birdlike and less fuzzy than the first pink things that came out of the eggs… And June 7th. What a difference...
View ArticleHouse Sparrows
Apparently my yard is ideal House Sparrow breeding ground. Well, given how prolific they are in general and how adaptable, I’m not sure that’s any great distinction, but it’s certainly no less true. On...
View ArticleBirdies Birdies Everywhere
Today was apparently the Day of the Birds around here! Last week, a gal posted on PDXBackyardChix that she had three “escape artist” hens she needed to rehome. She got an offer in Oregon City, but she...
View ArticleCamping in the Great Outdoors
Well, maybe not so great, but outdoors anyway. Last week my daughter decided she wanted to sleep outside in our backyard. Since we have a reasonably large backyard, a large tent, and a queen size air...
View ArticleSpring Planning
Last year at this time, I still didn’t have any garden beds, and we had no fruit trees planted, no blueberry bushes in the ground, no berry bed, no bees. How things change in a year! This year I’m not...
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