by Daisy | May 15, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
About a week or two ago, the daily egg count began to take a dive. I might collect five or six eggs one day, next to none the next day. A couple of days I literally collected no eggs. Some days several, some days one or two. I found a couple of half eaten eggs and...
by Daisy | Apr 1, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Today I collected all the gloves, mittens, wooly caps and scarves into a pile on the floor. There they lay in a mismatched jumble of color, style, and size. I picked them up as best as I could in one armful and carried them, less a few escapees, to the washing...
by Daisy | Mar 31, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
Now that we are safely on this side of winter I can make a few observations about the surprise survivors of the coldest winter in our area in 20 years. First up, kiwi. Last year I planted fuzzy kiwi, Actinidia chinensis ‘Vincent.’ Fuzzy kiwi, unlike hardy...
by Daisy | Mar 25, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
While I was on a walk yesterday I made the discovery of an intact bale of straw put out for curb collection. Naturally I hurried home to get the station wagon to pick up my new friend. I stopped the car and got out, ready to grab him and run. When I bent down to pick...
by Daisy | Mar 9, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
I don’t know if this would have been true of me as a young single, but nowadays all it takes to make my heart go pitter patter is to say the words compost + sifter. Actually, just compost will do. Especially finished compost. Smelling salts, please, and a fan....
by Daisy | Mar 3, 2014 | Conversation, Fencepost
I took advantage of the snow day here to sleep in. When I finally peered out of the window around 9 o’clock, I noticed there were no chickens pecking around the chicken run. We’ve had snow before, several times in fact, and the chickens didn’t seem...
