If you’ve ever fussed with heat lamps, cold drafts, warm days risking overheating, and tiny baby chicks in a brooder, you know how frustrating the brooding process can be – and finding a hen to adopt your chicks and do the temperature regulation for you becomes a tempting idea. When one of my hens became…
Storm Damage, Tree Grief, and Repurposing Fallen Wood
Strong spring storms are not infrequent visitors to Hawk Hill. Living just 2 miles from where the infamous 2011 F5 tornado cut a swath of chaos through Joplin, and with a half-dozen or so tornado warnings in any given year, I’m used to storm cleanup. I am not used to the kind of…