The other major thing that happened toward the end of the school year/beginning of summer break is that we welcomed our miniature donkey, Luna, into our farm family. This means that our farm family is complete. No more animals! (Well, except for the constant rotation of various poultry, but that doesn't count ( Read more... )

Like much of the East Coast, we are under a winter storm warning for tomorrow. Our supervisory union is already dismissing early tomorrow, to avoid the brunt of the blizzard-like conditions in the afternoon. We've already used four snow days this year, and people are starting to wig out over how late into the summer students will go to school. (It' ( Read more... )

Every few days, I think, "I should write in my journal about that!" but then never actually do. Although I'm not taking any classes right now, it's a busy time of the year in the House of Felagund, and I've been staying very loyal to my gym schedule. And I've been busy at work, with a large senior class this year and all of them in some form of ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention a whole bunch of stuff in my last post!

• I have started at a gym. O.O This is something I swore I would never do. (Just like I swore I would never study English in university, would never become a teacher, would never write fantasy/fanfic ...) But I spent more than a year in constant pain, dealing with inflammation issues and ( Read more... )

Okay, we just had an unsolved mystery. Bobby cut the grass this afternoon and, while he was replacing the push mower in the shed, pulled back the tarp he uses to cover it and found ten chicken eggs underneath. Although the coop is part of the shed, there is no way out of the coop and into the part of the shed where the mower is kept (aside from the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Bobby and I went to the livestock auction in Westminster. It was our third time going: once for chicks, twice for Ameraucanas, and the third time to replace the roosters. Well, we struck out the first two times, but three's a charm, and we came home with five fluffy hens: three Delawares and two New Hampshire Reds. We've already gotten ( Read more... )

Well, the rooster saga gets even better ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday, Bobby and I received definitive confirmation that a bad suspicion we'd had was true: Two of the chickens are roosters ( Read more... )

( The Girlies Are Growing Up ... )

Today, I was working and I realized that I've become Coraline's mother. (Not the Other Mother, thank goodness ( Read more... )