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Category Archives: DIY
Magical Pit Stain Remover
It’s called ‘bleach’, my husband tells me. But I was loathe to use it. Besides potential environmental dangers, I remember using bleach to reverse ‘tie-dye’ t-shirts in high school. If I left them in the bleach too long they would … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Health, homemade, household cleaner
Tagged armpit, nontoxic, stain remover, sweat stain, yellow stain
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From Broody Box to Broody Breaker!
Queen Sheba is broody. We were surprised because our previous Australorp never went broody. But there she sits – protecting the nest box with the most eggs as if they were her own and as if they would hatch. *Sigh* But … Continue reading
Posted in animal behaviour, broody hen, chicken behaviour, chickens, DIY
Tagged breaking a broody hen, broody box, broody breaker, broody hens
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Open letter to the gardeners who took my olla class
Dear brave fellow gardeners who invested in learning to hand-build ollas, If you chose to make your olla with sculpture clay (white), congratulations! I hope that your olla is still performing well. For the majority of learners who made their … Continue reading
Pullet-Shut!
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The original coop door – R.I.P.[/caption]
Ah, the chicken coop door. The times we’ve neglected to shut it. The times we’ve forgotten. The times we thought we did, but didn’t. The times it was out for repair. Over the years we have unnecessarily lost 5 hens to raccoons Continue reading
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