Tag: chickens

In the ongoing “nonhumans with books” series, I present a chicken reading Coop: Found it in a year-old Facebook message which I unfortunately archived before identifying the sender…so a general thank you to the unknown photog.

Cool things readers do. Paint bricks to look like books. Include Coop. Thanks, Jane! (If yer not familiar, Coop is about pigs, chickens, farm life, faith wobbles, and birthing a baby at home.) P.S. Always so much nicer when readers paint bricks rather than throw them.

A moment of silence, if you will, for Great-Grandma’s 7 iron, which outlived her for a decade, but succumbed tonight during a vigorous round of clodhopper apple golf. Our loss was tempered by the delighted laughter of an 8-year-old member of the matrilineal line, who just loves it when we play this game with a…View post

Doing major coop repairs (worst thing you can do to a building is let it sit empty) in preparation for a new generation of layers. Checked my weather app at 11 p.m. last night and decided based on all the sunny little emojis to leave things lying out down there where I was working. Woke…View post

  Spent a little time Around the Farm Table recently. Thank you, Inga! (Those who know me will recognize some entertaining artistic license was exercised–juggling?!?). I wish to thank Dennis, a neighbor who lent his porch and those tractors in the background.