Travelingjenny
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We now have 10,008 pets, as Grace likes to say. Yes, that's Adam in the funny suit, becoming a beekeeper right before my very eyes. And yes, he had to move the bees from the little box they arrived in (see below) into the hive he built himself, with a little help from our "bee…
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Toad catching season has officially begun. Even the chickens are excited.
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You know it's cold when even your Newfoundland doesn't want to be outside. It was minus twenty-one here this morning. Ouch… Also, I discovered today that I really don't like doing my chicken chores when it's really cold outside. And then I realized that I should just be grateful that I'm not a chicken.
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The other day I decided to let the chickens out while it was snowing — they're Maine chickens, after all — and when I opened the coop door, they just stood there and peeked out for a couple of minutes. Then, one by one, they flew out of the coop (instead of their usual hop-and-run…
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And one little bunny.
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Grace is still the mother hen and chief egg collector, but Tess has suddenly taken an interest in the eggs as well. I'm not sure if it's because she knows Grace loves to collect them, or if she truly finds it exciting, but she has become quite the little helper — as long as the…
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I swear I stood in front of the chicken coop for a full two minutes this afternoon, shocked to see THREE eggs in the nest box. I would have been no more surprised if someone had just informed me that Grace had been nominated to the Supreme Court (by the way, she does want to…
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The other morning, Maggie was resting quietly at the bottom of the stairs, and Tess decided to sit with her. She gave me a running commentary of what the dog was doing: "Eyes closed. Mah-my sleeping… Oh, eyes open now! Mah-my hungry!" So then Tess proceeded to prepare her a snack — three pieces of…
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Ta-da!! Upon returning home from our morning outing, Grace went to the coop to check for eggs. And much to her surprise, she actually found one. It was on the ground in front of the coop — not in the nest box, or even inside the coop — but I figure that's better than being…
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Princess Parsley. She is a sweet, 10-week-old "lionhead" bunny. We adopted Parsley this morning from the animal shelter in Kennebunk, where our friend Kerrie works. Parsley is Grace's very early birthday present — we fell in love with her photo online, so we had to adopt her before someone else did! Our little animal lover had…
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