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Shared on Twitter Lately (Late November Issue)
Spouse and I took the month of November by storm, cleaning up the house & property and getting projects wrapped up with an energy akin to two toddlers slamming down a 64-ounce Big Gulp container of...
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SNAAAAAAKE!!!
"HUUUMAAAAN!!!" She was just as startled as I. I was in the process of cleaning out the goose pond. I was reaching in to reposition the pumps, as she was trying to make her way out. We met eyeball to...
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The New Era
Now that the apocalyptic fantasies for 12/21 have passed with nary a whisper, let us get to work on the serious issues that face us, instead of hoping for some event to destroy or re-create our world...
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No Goose Eggs Yet?
There's been no breeding dominance fights between our ganders, Billy-Bob and Gerdy. No canoodling in the Pool o' Woo. No squabbling (aka 'shrieking') under our bedroom window for a nesting spot under...
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Resistance is Futile for Us Beginners
Resistance may take the form of making a list of what's essential or telling yourself to stick within a certain budget, but try as you might, it happens to all us beginners: we buy way too many...
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Chest Freezer: Defrosting & Organizing Tips
Step 1: Take out the bodies, and hide them. Okay, okay, just kidding, it only LOOKS like our freezer could hide bodies. This post is for folks who are new to chest freezers and bulk frozen food storage...
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Keep Calm and Raise (Hell-)Geese
The geese finally started laying their eggs about the same time I posted "Resistance is Futile for Us Beginners". It was a huge relief to know the egg-laying season was kicking into gear, for the...
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Be right back...
Another shoulder surgery, illness, then allergies have kicked my backside left & right. Once it becomes easier to type, the blog will return to its usual at-least-twice-a-month schedule.
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Twenty Bales in a 19-Bale Truck
Alternate title: "Don't ever let a country boy tell you how much your truck bed will hold." - Spouse We've done things like this before - see "Moving Via the Nail-biter Express" - and it was well past...
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State o' the Garden & Orchard, 2013
Where to begin? It's another season of slow progress, due to shoulder issues that continued to haunt from last year. Second surgery completed in late March, and hopefully this is the last one...
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DIY Duck & Goose & Dog Pond Filter system
Spouse writes: The eight geese and two dogs foul up the goose pond in about 4.5 days during the summer. The pond filter we have used for the last few years was a pressurized number that used an...
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State o' the Garden & Orchard, Wrapup Fall 2013: FAIL
Tomatoes: FAIL. Blight, blight, blightedy-blight blight. We may have trucked in the disease with the load of compost from a local garden center. Not one decent tomato this year. Nada. The plants could...
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*splutter* Winter?
I mean, what the heck happened to Fall??? Texas has been hit with wave after wave of Arctic downdrafts. The cool concrete flooring I wax so joyously about in the Summer now feels like a block of ice,...
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A New Pack of Poultry, A New Drama of Ducks
Due to the Egg Laying Strike of Winter 2013-2014, Spouse has agreed we need to refresh our poultry flock, especially with breeds that will lay in cold weather. What we've ordered this year (all...
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I Love This Goose & Duck Feeder, Okay?
Installed the last new poultry and waterfowl feeder a couple weeks ago. It took the place of an old goose feeder station that used two baby pig troughs mounted on a backboard. While prepping for...
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Video was taken a few years ago, but the situation remains the same: it's egg-laying season for the geese, and the geese are crabby. Thankfully it's only four months out of the year.
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The Shark Cage
Baby chicks are adorable balls of fluff. Chickens, baby or full grown, are also predators, and not above cannibalizing their own, alive or dead. Natalie of the wonderful Chicken Blog wrote of having a...
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Portents & Signs
This could be a sign... ...that we need to ride our bikes more often.Happy May Day! [pic: Inca dove.]
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Dog Debacle & Redemption
It was all my fault. It was easier to get Bandit into the cab of the truck instead of the bed, because the used utility truck we own was/is jacked up for bushwhacking. Though the truck bed tailgate is...
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