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I Never Should Have Socialized The Rooster

I Never Should Have Socialized The Rooster

For the record, that title is definitely something I never thought I would write. Moving on … I don’t quite know how it got so out of hand. The constant “calling cards” on the deck. The crowing outside the bedroom

Drew October 7, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 2 Comments Read more

A Meditation On Roosters

A Meditation On Roosters

Previous Walden Wednesdays have focused on everything from strawberries to cougars to stink bugs. In short, wild (or mostly wild) things that we have around here and decided to learn more about. Today’s entry is far more mundane. Our subject: roosters. “Roosters?” you

Drew September 23, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 6 Comments Read more

The Other Stink Bug

The Other Stink Bug

The windows of our cabbage are covered in bugs right now. When Drew asked me what they were, I answered without hesitation. “Stink bugs.” Growing up, that’s always what I’d heard them called. But once I started researching for this blog

Mindy September 16, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 2 Comments Read more

Thunder Chicken

Thunder Chicken

As I was driving down from the work site the other day, I noticed a bird standing on the side of the road, near the creek (“crick” in local vernacular.) I stopped, rolled down my window, and spoke to it.

Drew September 2, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 2 Comments Read more

The Elusive Inland Northwest Wolf Deer

The Elusive Inland Northwest Wolf Deer

The sky was just beginning to darken over the field when I caught the flash of a fluffy tail moving through the tall grass. Barely glimpsed in the low light, it looked canine to me. Coyote? I wondered. Drew and

Mindy August 19, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 1 Comment Read more

Coug’n It

Coug’n It

I remember the very first time I came out to the ranch, Mindy told me not to walk under very tall trees, especially at night, due to cougars. I thought she was kidding. Cougars are an abstract concept to native

Drew August 5, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 2 Comments Read more

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

Since my last Walden Wednesday entry focused on a plant I definitely don’t want to see on our homestead site, this week it seems fair to write about one I want to encourage. As a little girl, I loved hunting for wild strawberries in

Mindy July 29, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 3 Comments Read more

Trotting After Turkeys

Trotting After Turkeys

One thing that I always get a kick out of seeing are wild turkeys. I grew up in the western part of Washington, out on the peninsula and then over in Snohomish County for my later adolescence. The natural habitat

Drew July 22, 2015 Walden Wednesdays No Comments Read more

The Purple Menace

Even though I grew up on the ranch, I never learned much about the plants and animals living here. One of my goals upon moving back was to remedy that. With this blog, I decided to start a Walden Wednesday

Mindy July 15, 2015 Walden Wednesdays 3 Comments Read more

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