Posted on June 24, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Today’s blog is not for the faint of heart. Shall I give you the worst first? Or shall I save it for last? I think I’ll just go ahead and get the creepy photos out of the way. Here goes – Creepy photo #1…
Category: Chickens, Critters, Garden, Week in Review Tags: backyard chickens, backyard poultry, chickens, domestic turkey, fireflies, meal worms, pond, snakes, swimming, trees, turkey, wasp larvae, wasps
Posted on June 4, 2019 by mrssmythe
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It’s Iris season! The lovely specimens you see below are currently outside the Smith Museum in downtown Springfield. Happily, I have irises growing in my own yard as well – though not in such spectacular profusion. Here is a yellow “volunteer” that popped up…
Category: Chickens, Crafting, Critters, Garden, libraries, Museums, Week in Review Tags: backyard chickens, backyard turkey, domestic turkey, east longmdeadow library, fair isle knitting, fair isle vest, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, george walter vincent smith museum, irises, knitting, perennial geranium, smith museum springfield
Posted on March 27, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Sorry for the delay in posts – it’s been a busy couple of weeks! Last week’s craziness was a ballroom dance competition in Connecticut…Pepper’s first. Here you see her fresh from hair and makeup the morning of the competition. She went in looking barely…
Category: Chickens, Crafting, Critters, Museums, Week in Review Tags: Amineko, backyard chickens, ballroom dance competition, chickens, compost, crochet, crocheted animals, domestic turkey, Mr. Wa, new york city museum of natural history, pet turkey, turkey
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
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