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…
After a night of sleeping in the woods, Martin and Susan venture through Stoneham looking for food and water but find little. What they do find is a populace lingering in normalcy bias. Even though it is only the second day of…
Martin and Susan’s hitchhike ride up 93 gets stalled in traffic. Opportunist criminals take advantage of the situation traffic to rob the stalled motorists. Martin thinks it better to avoid the trouble by walking around it in the woods. The…
Bi-annuals like onions and cabbage are a challenge for seed saving because they don’t make seeds until their second year. While it is more involved than simple annuals like tomatoes, beans, corn, etc., it can be done. Where to Begin…
Martin tries to help Susan find a hotel to stay in. The trouble is, everyone else wants a hotel room too.
Here is Chapter 2. The audio files are hosted on Podbean (as in the “listen now” link below.) The episodes do show up in Apple’s Podcast (web) and the app. It is supposed to show up in Google Podcasts too.…