Smart-ass Southern California Mom/Writer/Origami fumbler. These days loving our never dull, often absurd family life in the Northern Nevada Eastern Sierra mountains...with LOTS of chickens. Fluent in Snark.
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So it's the day before Thanksgiving, which at our house is Pie Day, in order to save my sanity. Tomorrow is reserved for the main event itself. This year we decided to go with just a pumpkin pie. My deep-dish pie plate is an ungodly ugly thing, but important in one respect--with shallower pans you get that annoying, full-to-the-top thing when you add the pumpkin pie filling...then without spilling…
DO NOT BETRAY US........ So my husband had a brilliant idea for how to decorate the yard for Halloween this year...we'd turn our front yard into an invasion from 'The Zanti Misfits'! And I knew I was destined to be up to my elbows in paper mache. If you've never seen this marvelous, campy episode of the original 1960'2 'The Outer Limits' series...well, just go watch it. When I was a kid we were…
Yeah, this month has been an odd one. Spotted in Reno, the Northern Sierra version of a Cybertruck: And, well...I'm not so sure this headline is in the best taste. I mean...do they know what 'Everything floats' refers too?! Wasn't there a cop handy they could ask? But hey, my stuff from Discworld Emporium got here from England, yay! Their packaging is a gift in itself. Love the Ankh-Morpork…
Because some of the chicks were being little snots during picture time and refused to come out from under the bushes. I don't blame them, it got hot early this morning. But anyway, here's pictures of the ones I could lure out with frozen watermelon. Ishkabibble is the red chick on the left, Sunshine the little blond on the right. The gray hen center back is Rainbow. Garnet is the big red girl in…
Out of the six surviving chicks that hatched from our eggs, three are hens, and three are roos. Once again in order of hatch, here they are at two months old! As far as we know all have Mjolnir, our Buff Orpington rooboy, for a daddy except for one chick. But all that red means they may surprise us when they molt out into their first set of adult feathers in a few months! This batch was MUCH…
Here is the first group of Chickam chicks, they turned two months old on July 10th. Picture time involved more aggrieved screaming (mostly from me begging them to calm down, shut up, for crying out loud ) and struggling than previous years. When they did settle down, we got loads of judgemental looks. We paid through the nose to get all pullets, so no rooboys in this batch! In the same order as…
Saw something out in the front yard yesterday morning... I kinda thought the bird seed block was disappearing awfully fast. Crunch, crunch, crunch... This little buck was a LOUD chewer, and stood there and stared at us like, 'Yeah, whatta ya gonna do about it?' Just before this he'd been stripping the little marble-sized apples off my tree, and helpfully removing the lower branches. By the time he…
On top of the nine hatchery chicks we got in mid-May, here are the chick hatched from eggs from our flock! In order of hatch, here they are--and lets just say that Mjolnir, our buff Orpington rooster, is WELL represented here: Lemon Zest (mom: Luna), egg #6. We got so many blondies this year, we food color-spotted some of them. Lemon Zest got green head/chest spots, and is clean legged. Jay Jay…
LOCKDOWN DAY! The 10 Chickam eggs got their final turn last night at 11PM, and today got moved to the bottom of the incubator in preparation for hatching. Larger eggs to the back, smaller eggs out in front. This is the first hatch for our new Vevor incubator...although not really a fair test for it, for reasons I'll get into further down (because it's not Chickam without some kind of damn drama).…
For those who don't know, on the 10th day of incubation we candle (shine a bright light) through the eggs to check for embryos--and weed out any duds. So far I'm cautiously optimistic that the 5 hour power outage we suffered on the 2nd day of incubation hasn't affected our eggs. We really won't know until hatch day, May 31st - June 1st. But here's what we have! Out of 15 eggs set, we have 10 with…
