A pair of barn swallows is nesting on the porch. Barn swallows are pretty and fascinating to watch. They are also useful because they eat bugs.
In years past, there was a pair of barn swallows that nested on the porch. They stopped several years ago. We also had barn swallows nesting in our old barn, […]

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Spring is the season for new things. The grass is growing, the flowers are blooming, the trees are leafing out. The birds are nesting . . . and the chickens and turkey have similar ideas.
Chickens are called broody when they are in the mood for sitting on eggs. This is a visible and stark change […]

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I don’t like rats. I’m not in terror of them, but on my list of loathsome creatures they rank pretty near the top. I don’t know if they are above or below snakes. A snake can be unpleasant to the eye, but they never strike me as feral and unclean as rats.
My opinion of rats […]

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Well, I feel I ought to give my readers a bit of an explanation. I’ve been gone for a rather long stretch of time, and perhaps some of you are wondering why. To fill you all in briefly:
Last week on Tuesday and Wednesday I spent my writing time working on Marilyn’s book proposal. Marilyn B […]

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I have a few serial escapist chickens on my hands. The wanderers consist of three or so hens. One of them might be flying over the fence, but the two most egregious offenders are going under the fence.
There is a drainage ditch running through the chicken yard, and the fence goes over, not through, the […]

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