Category Archives: Family

Hello Solstice. I greet you with bittersweet joy. You are glorious. Incomparable. I know if I chose I could walk out, at this absurd midnight hour and read a book in your glory. And yet. You herald the inexorable decline … Continue reading →

Lots of busy in last seven months. New house is wonderful. Haven’t completed moving out of old place. And puppy.

-joking / not joking- Moving goes thru multiple states of being. I have achieved the state of despair in packing for our move. I’ve packed 5 boxes of DVDs. Each box holds around 80 DVDs. We’ve watched few of them. … Continue reading →

Where there is life, there is hope. Took a break from packing and fretting to set 41 eggs. Perhaps we will have a good hatch rate. Perhaps E will make some ‘pin money’ selling extras. These are barnyard mix from … Continue reading →

We started house hunting when in late June 2020 we learned that the Municipality of Anchorage intended to purchase a building 800 feet from our home to provide daytime homeless services. The MOA has a history of ignoring the crime … Continue reading →

I was FaceBooking and saw an interesting simple graphic this morning: I posted to my friend: I am such a data nerd. I wanted to see what the numbers were behind these percentages. And I do NOT want to clean … Continue reading →

The first fruits of our labor.

Pics of current build out. More or less in maintenance mode now. Will add a roof extension on the opposite side of the coop to protect the chicken feed from the elements. Kits are nearly two weeks old. Their eyes … Continue reading →

What I wrote to Dusky’s breeder: Dear xxx Dusky kindled about 1 AM this morning. I checked her this morning 7:30 AM. She was out of the nest box and hungry. She ate with good appetite after several days of … Continue reading →

Mama and two calves in front of our house. And crazed Cardigans. I love that smack dab in a city of many hundreds of thousands of people, moose and (rarely) bear walk through our circle.