Weird Weekend – Atlantis and Ancient History
How Much History Do We Know? I have always been fascinated by the legends of Atlantis. I find the idea that an entire civilization could be ‘lost’ intriguing because in school we are told we know everything about man’s progressive rise. From the hunter-gatherer, to the city-states in the Fertile Crescent, through the Victorian Age […]
Wild Wednesday – Look! Zoo Animals!
A long, busy day, but I am determined to keep up my Wild Wednesday posts. Today I made chicken dinner, a whole lot of chicken dinners, actually. When I started the day, I had 15 of these: Now I have this: And this: But nobody really wants the details on that, and I’m too tired […]
Weird Weekend – Today’s Eclipse, The Mayan Prophecy, And Extraterrestrials
So today’s post was going to be something completely different, but then I remembered what today is…it’s May 20th, 2012! And something incredible will take place in our skies. If you’re east of the Mississippi, well, sorry, it won’t be visible to you, but for us west coasties and desert dwellers we will be treated […]
Wild Wednesday – Taming The Wild Garden
A gardener’s work is never done, but even if you let things slide you can still reclaim what you’ve neglected. I certainly neglected a corner of my garden. It looked awful; scruffy and overgrown with weeds and grass. See how long and luxurious that grass is back behind my grape and trellis? Now picture that […]
Wild Wednesday – How To Raise Chickens In The City
What You Need To Raise Chickens At work, I am affectionately (I think!) known as the Crazy Chicken Lady. Not many people raise their own meat and egg-producers, and as someone pointed out, “You know, they sell eggs and chicken at the grocery store, you don’t need to go to all this work.” […]
Weird Weekend – Vampires, Werewolves, and Bestsellers, Oh My!
So I’ve got to work on the consistency thing, but it seems that for the first time in a long time I’ve bitten off way more than I can chew. Getting the garden going, managing feeding, watering and cleaning up after 29 chickens takes up the little time I have after work. I found myself […]