Website, freezer, and hen news
You
may have noticed that our website has received a face lift.
Hopefully now it will show up properly for all of you Internet Explorer
users. Stay tuned for other upgrades as we celebrate our first
year on the internet!
Meanwhile, Mark and I splurged and got a brand new, Energy Star
freezer. We'd filled our small freezer to the gills over the last
few weeks, but I didn't want to plug in the big freezer because of its
leaky gasket.
The new freezer has handy sliding baskets and lots
of room to put away more produce, and its annual energy usage is on a
par with our little fridge. Can you believe that Mark
attached it to the golf cart and hauled it back to our trailer all by
himself?
Finally, the bad news. I've waited to post about this until now,
because I didn't want to think about it. Remember how I said that
our broody hen
was poking
around under her belly when I heard the peeping Friday
evening? It seems that she was killing the chick, not helping it
out of its shell. She continued to pummel the dead chick with her
bill Saturday morning until I scooped it out of the nest, and now the
hen is happily sitting on top of what may be more dead chicks for all I
know. No more peeping. I have no idea what we're going to
do with this hen who is so obsessed with brooding that she kills her
offspring when they get in the way. (Well, the stew pot
beckons....)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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