Nature

Chicken Coop

Shhh… Don’t tell Colleen, but I just bought a book from Amazon called, “Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock”. The kids and I went over to one of Violet’s friend’s houses yesterday and bought some chicken eggs. They house 7 chickens in the big area in their backyard. They get about 6 […] more…

The week past, in pictures.

My gorgeous daughter taken tonight: The kids built birdhouses today… We had to bundle up to hang the bird feeders. A picture, drawn by Violet, of our family. Notice Violet’s new found butterfly drawing skills. This picture has the “morning sky.” She drew three pictures that night, each with a sky from a different time […] more…

Snow

We’re at a stand still. We’re already wondering if I’m going to be able to go to work on Monday. There’s about 6 inches of snow on the ground and underneath that a sheet of ice. It’s not supposed to warm up around here until Monday. I do not like being stuck in the house […] more…

Leaves

Exciting stuff here. I just spent the afternoon updating the backend of my website in preparation for the New Year and a new promise to myself to blog on a more regular basis. I updated the “theme” as well. Isn’t it pretty? This is really just a test post to make sure everything is working. […] more…

Autumn in North Carolina

It’s autumn in North Carolina. We know by several different reasons: the constant shotgun shots that we can hear from our entirely closed up house signifying the slaughter of those obnoxious deer that like to run into the side of my car, the turning of the leaves (supposedly rather beautiful in the “mountains” of North […] more…

The Third Post of the Day (Attic, revisited)

We got the wall up. We did it in sections. Four 10 foot sections. We eyeballed it and I think we’re within an inch of being perfectly square. I can take that. The picture makes it look the wall isn’t perfectly straight up and down, but it is. We haven’t nailed it up at the […] more…