Posted on April 14, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Greetings! Here I am, yesterday, sitting in the sun in the backyard – the first time I was out and about in just about two weeks. Otherwise, I’ve been bedridden, overcoming a bout with the flu that slid into a case of pneumonia. It’s…
Category: Chickens, Cooking, CPT's Lens, Crafting, Critters, Toys, Week in Review Tags: Amineko, backyard chickens, backyard poultry, catahoula leopard dog, cats, chickens, crochet, crocheted dinosaur, crocheted toys, giant allium, guinea hen, guinea hen egg, manny, Mr. Wa, Shadow, skillet cooking, skillet lasagna, skillet pie, skillet pizza, spring, turkey egg
Posted on February 18, 2019 by mrssmythe
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We had another visit from the wild turkeys this week. If you look along the top of our back fence, you can see our turkey (the white one) sidling up to a wild turkey (the darker one to the right). At first we thought…
Category: Baking, Books, Chickens, CPT's Lens, Critters, Kitchen, Old Books, Seasons, Week in Review Tags: backyard chicken, backyard poultry, barred owl, Cheesecake Cookbook, domestic turkey, eggs, granola, guinea hen, homemade granola, Junior's cheesecake, Oatmeal Bread, pet guinea hen, pet turkey, Tightwad Gazette, wild turkeys
Posted on December 2, 2018 by mrssmythe
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We’ve been up with the sun this past week. Not that we weren’t before. We were. But this past week, there’s been more of an urgency about our mornings. We’ve wanted to make sure the new birds are doing well, so, at the first…
Category: Chickens, CPT's Lens, Critters, Seasons, Week in Review Tags: Advent, chickens, chinook dog, Christmas, dog, guinea hen, hawk, knitting, opal, rabbit, socks, sparrows, turkey, Ursa
Posted on November 25, 2018 by mrssmythe
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The Berkshires looked like a Christmas card this past week. CPT A captured some of the beauty while off running errands. Just magical! Not so magical…this broken snowblower: This is what comes of mice in the shed. And, it perplexes me, because I want…
Category: Books, Celebrations, Chickens, CPT's Lens, Critters, Old Books, Week in Review Tags: chickens, guinea fowl, It's an Old New England Custom, pumpkin pie, pumpkins, snow, snow blowers, Thanksgiving, turkeys
Posted on September 20, 2017 by mrssmythe
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Lots of red in the landscape these days – from the crabapples in the grocery store parking lot… to the zinnias in the front yard… and the yarrow in the herb garden. The trees have yet to do much changing, but the maple in…
Category: Baking, CPT's Lens, Critters, Garden, Seasons, Week in Review Tags: basil, carrot cake, chicken pot pie, crab apple, Fall, fall webworm moth, morning glory, spiderwort, yarrow, zinnia
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