I snapped some pics of Lulu in the pantry interacting with a corn flakes box and wrote a funny little story. It's on my blog today. Check it out for a chuckle.
http://mountaingardengleanings.blogspot.com/2011/04/lulus-boyfriend.html
Everything tastes better and is fresher.
I know what's in it, and on it.
No herbicides or pesticides.
Possibility to make some $$.
Exercise and fresh air.
Environmentalty friendy.
Love watching things grow.
Sense of satisfaction at my own achievements.
Always something new to...
I submitted a comment about chickens to Mother Earth Enews and was asked if they could publish it in their magazine. This month, April/May 2011 on page 102 - There it is in black and white! Never been in a magazine before! Woohoo! :weee :ya
My dad turned 80 so we went to Saskatoon for his birthday. Lulu, our lame part-time house chicken came along because it was too cold to leave her outside. We stopped at Vegreville to show her the giant egg but it was cold and windy so she was not impressed.
Read more about our road trip in...
We bought ladybugs two summers ago. Most of them seemed to disappear. We had aphid problems on some of our fruit trees. Last year we didn't have the problems because the those trees are in the chickens' run. I think the girls ate the ants that put the aphids in the trees because we didn't...
I made some palt which is a Swedish dish I learned how to make from my Swedish grandmother-in-law. It is sort of a potato dumpling stuffed with meat. I'm not Swedish but I was one of the few of my generation who learned how to make it. My boys really like it so I still make it sometimes.
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Oh yes, I forgot corn on the cob. Sometimes I get lots of corn that the husks look ugly but there is nothing wrong with the cobs. I cut eat cob into 3 or 4 pieces and give enough so each has their own cob. I save the rest for other days since they go wild for it and I heard you are not...
Good for you, Boggy! :thumbsup Great job (nothing better than getting paid to talk to people and be friendly :frow ) plus all that produce. :weee My girls love it in different ways (raw, cooked, chipped) plus my garden loves the leftovers that they don't eat or that they eat and work...