Calm in the Cold

After I finished work today and came home, I refused to look outside. The pipes did freeze last night, and I threw a mini temper tantrum because for all that we got stocked up on food, we forgot to get stocked up on water, and all our food required water to cook it—unless we wanted …

Spring Will Not Arrive

I've come to accept that spring just isn't coming this year. We will live in perpetual winter and never be able to grow anything. We will sit and huddle our incubation eggs and our chicks in the breeder when the power goes out because the rain is flooding everything, and will swim to work and school through mud, and dance on the uneven ground of hard frozen earth when the snow returns the following week. 

Don’t Count Your Chicks Before They Hatch

A bit of a delayed post, but we have chicks! They're actually about a week old today and tomorrow, and they've had a seemingly eventful week! First of all, let me just point out that they are cute as a button, first of all. However, not all of them made it. We had a power …