Posted on July 21, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Greetings to you! I hope you’re staying cool in all of this heat – that is if, like us, your area of the world is currently sweltering! For once, it’s too hot even to go to the pond, so we’re all hunkered down inside,…
Category: Books, Chickens, Crafting, Critters, Garden, Seasons, Travel, Week in Review Tags: backyard chickens, backyard guinea hen, black-eyed susan, Bringing Nature Home, bumblebees, butterfly, chickens, crochet, day lilies, dragonfly, guinea fowl, guinea hen, Howe Caverns, macro photography, mermaid cat, silver-spotted skipper, stamens
Posted on June 11, 2019 by mrssmythe
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The fair isle sweater continues to cook along swimmingly. Here is my progress as of last week. I think it’s interesting how the colors in the sweater echo the colors I’m seeing in my yard right now. The purple of the irises… and of…
Category: Chickens, Crafting, Critters, Garden, Week in Review Tags: american copper, backyard chickens, backyard guinea hen, black and white jumping spider, butterflies, cat mint, cats, clematis, fair isle knitting, guinea hen, guinea hen eggs, iris, knitting, Mr. Wa
Posted on May 19, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Finally! The weather is improving. I was able to get some good gardening time in this week, and the girls were able to have some outdoor fun with the chickens. We’ve discovered that the chickens love mealworms. They’ve learned to distinguish the sound the container…
Category: Chickens, Crafting, Critters, Garden, Seasons, Toys, Week in Review Tags: apple blossoms, backyard chickens, backyard guinea hen, bleeding heart, crocheted chicken, crocheted toys, eggs, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hand knit sweater, hand knit vest, knitted vest, knitting, Knitting Workshop, raglan sweater, spring
Posted on April 29, 2019 by mrssmythe
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Eggs! Right now we’re getting so many eggs. All through the winter…nothing. Now, we’re overrun. We give some away, and I try to include eggs with my breakfasts, but when you’re getting 4-5 a day, you really need something that will make a bigger…
Category: Baking, Chickens, Cooking, Crafting, Critters, Garden, Seasons, Week in Review Tags: azalea, backyard chickens, backyard turkey, beef and bacon gnocchi skillet, cactus, chinook dog breed, chipmunks, crochet, crocheted toys, dogs, guinea hen, lemon chiffon cake, opal, pet chickens, pet rabbit, pet turkey, spring, Ursa
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
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