One Thousand Gifts

faith tracy austin alexandra (princess) aislin (flower child) muddy acres – charlotte mason mecca music psalms the color purple mobile phones home school dark chocolate mt. olivet friends Sonlight piano lucy, gracie, goose, veronica, socks, sophie, angel, jasmine, fred, georgie, roxy, sugar, augustus, and however many chickens call this place home today bird feeders my [...]

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Snow Chickens

NOT! See that brown path?  It goes from the door of the hen house to the barn.  They do NOT stray off the dirt path, they do NOT walk on snow.  It’s very strange not having all the chickens underneath the birdfeeders pecking at the spillage.

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Has someone cursed my hen house?

I wonder sometimes if I was meant to be a farm wife. Tracy bought ten new, newly laying chickens to add to our flock.  We’ve only been getting one or two eggs a day since all the older ones are molting at the same time.  We’ve hatched and bought them in batches to hopefully avoid [...]

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Spring shot!

I’ve changed the header to show the lovely greening of our hay field.  Spring is springing!  The real sign that winter is over, however, is on the windshield of my Expedition.  Bug suicide… Not much farmy stuff going on, though.  We’ve had our typical monsoon March and April and Muddy Acres is living up to [...]

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Mama’s Menagerie

Bring home this: And the man of the house is very likely to bring home this: Sadly, all three of these beautiful animals have been abandoned in our community.  We are concerned that the puppy may be lost.  He is a beautiful black lab and has had his dew (sp?) claws removed.  There was also [...]

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