My brooding hen’s eggs hatched this past Friday. At first, four of her seven eggs hatched within hours of each other. A fifth egg showed “pipping” but little progress. The other two eggs showed no sign of pipping. They may…
I have a very short survey up at FreeOnlineSurveys, asking what people would prefer for the distribution of Book 3. If you listened to the Epilogue podcast, you know the background to the questions. So, here’s the link: https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/6IDbzuU3 If…
It was a longer project than I imagined but at long last, Book 1 is finally available as an audio book. It is on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3jZ9evM A good while back, some friends lamented that my books weren’t available as…
Our mystery animal turned out to be a big porcupine. For several months, I was content to leave him be. When he started eating on my best apple tree, he crossed the line. I set my defenses and caught him…
New Hampshire had been in a sub-zero deep freeze for the past few weeks. Knowing that the start was near for the maple sap flow, we watched the weather carefully. A string of warmer days coming was our clue to…
This morning, the outdoor temperature at the homestead was five degrees below zero. We a few more days of such cold in the forecast. Most people complain about cold snaps like this, but I couldn’t be happier. Why? It’s good…
Now that the Christmas break is over, it’s time to resume the Siege of New Hampshire story. Yesterday, I posted Chapter 1: Awakening. Book One, as you know, if you’ve listened to the podcasts, was essentially a ‘get home’ story.…
We got a nice Christmas gift today from our two youngest hens. They both started laying! They started at a good time, as the rest of the older hens stopped laying during The Molt. We were running out of stored…
Today, with the release of Chapter 14, brings an end to book one. Martin and Susan finally make it to his home in New Hampshire. Below is the embedded player from Podbean. It’s supposed to show all 16 of the…
One of my hens has taken to laying her eggs somewhere other than the coop’s nest boxes. This isn’t allowed, for obvious reasons. She has to be ‘broken’ of her attachment to her new nest site, but it has not…