A Game of Horse and Mouse
As cat’s go, Horse is alright. She does a lot of the things that make cats jerks – scratches up the woodwork, alights on countertops and other surfaces where she knows she is not welcome, and bites my hand and…
New Door Latches
Doing a little bit of home improvement this weekend, a really minor change but feels like a major improvement. Ever since we moved in we have had rubber bands holding the doors closed on the upstairs cabinets, they have been…
Guineas: The New Flock
After our rat issue precipitated by over-wintering the guinea hens we have decided to only keep them from spring till fall and butcher them for meat. So, we butchered the birds last fall and have been eating them slowly over…
Eating the Guineas
After the fox started picking off a guinea or so a day it was clear our flock wouldn’t last more than a few weeks into the fall, so we opted to butcher and freeze them instead of trying to get…
First Guinea Egg of the Year!
Having had so many eggs stolen toward the end of the last laying season, we were concerned that this season’s would all be spirited away before we had the chance to get to them. Much to my glee, this…
A Stranger in Our Midst
I found these perfect little tracks in the dust on top of the bins we keep our Guinea feed in the other day. I’m not well-versed in identifying animal tracks, but I do have a suspicion that they belong to…
A tour of Green Chimneys
The Harlem Valley train line that runs to our town has a major terminus in Brewster, New York, about 30 minutes south of us. Trains run there more regularly that our Wingdale Station, so we find ourselves down there pretty…
Rat Trouble
As the weather has gotten cold we’ve had set up the Guinea’s for the winter. We’ve added a heat lamp to the coop, a water heater, and have been stocking the feeder with a lot more food since they aren’t…
Picket fence and a new garden plan
This year the garden was devastated by rabbits. Within a 48 hour period they wiped out our brussels, spinach, carrots, broccoli, swiss chard, pole beans and snap peas – leaving only our garlic, arugula (no idea why), and onions. The…