flowerweaver's Chicken Coop One garden
Garden Type: Wildlife | Sun: Dappled Sun | Soil: Don't Know | Established: 2006 | Organic
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21 Oct 2011Chicken Coop One garden
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Sunny 29°C / 85°F
She passed this afternoon, quietly in the pleasant light on the front porch, with songbirds singing. I only wish I had been able to heal her.
Although any chicken keeper can tell you each chicken has it’s own personality, some have more personality than others. Alzina, named after Farmer Ri...
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11 Sep 2011
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Carolina Snailseed, fires, and introducing Barton Brabanter
Chicken Coop Two garden , Chicken Coop One garden , Carolina Snailseed Fruiting, and Creek gardenCloudy 36°C / 97°FThanks for everyone’s concerns about the Texas wildfires. As you recall, we were surrounded by them in April and May. The Bastrop fire is about 4 hours east of us. It has decimated one of my favorite state parks. Also 18,000 acres of my hometown are burning, the flames now only a mile from ...
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02 Sep 2011Chicken Coop One garden , Red Bird of Paradise Blooming, and Entrance garden
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Cloudy 37°C / 99°FThe past few days the temperature has dropped from 106-109 degrees to 99-101 giving a little relief. It’s pretty sad when 100 degrees feels like fall. Last Sunday a small, dark cloud moved over us. I had an idea. You call yourself a cloud? I bet you are too wimpy to even wet the ground! Far...
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03 Apr 2011
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We're tweens! More sowings, and planning for a drought...
Chicken Coop One garden , Chicken Coop Two garden , 10,000 Flowers Project garden , Vegetable garden , Blac...29°C / 84°FWe’re just back in from a dip in the river. This is probably the earliest we’ve ever gone swimming, but at 90 degrees outside it felt both necessary and refreshing. Things were a little calmer on the homestead this week, but not entirely without issue. We started hearing an electrical...
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24 Feb 2011Chicken Coop Two garden and Chicken Coop One garden
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Cloudy 18°C / 64°FIt’s been a weird week. Farmer Rick accompanied me across the creek yesterday afternoon to tend the chickens, being utterly unable to move about the property as I normally do and we discovered the damage. Well, as if the anxiety I’ve been feeling since the hunter incident wasn’t...
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26 Nov 2010
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Brassicas, Free-range No More, and the Place Where Nature Calls
Vegetable garden , Chicken Coop Two garden , Chicken Coop One garden , and Sky Chair Ponds garden13°C / 56°FThanksgiving was wonderful, and not a trace of skunk odor remained—something to be truly thankful about! A good time was had by all, eating real, slow food. When we started the meal temperatures were in the 80’s and by the time we finished they had dropped 40 degrees. Tonight they are...
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07 Nov 2010
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Winterizing, southwest Texas style
Greenhouse garden , Mint Licorice Potting Up, Mint Korean Potting Up, Mint Mountain (Virginia) Potting Up, ...Sunny 14°C / 57°FThe weather has been stunningly beautiful during the day this weekend, although lightly freezing at night. It’s the best of both worlds: almost t-shirt weather during the day, and cold enough for a fire in the fireplace and extra quilts on the bed at night. I love a diurnal climate! On Thur...
