Backyard Barnyard: New breeds

As I posted on Saturday, we have a couple of newbies in the flock: Tilly, our Splash Cochin Bantam, and Tess, our Black Silkie Bantam. I choose Silkies because they’re lap chickens, or they’re...

Parties and Mother’s Day and R...

For the past month or so I’ve been trying to make more of an effort to write more often, every day if I can (or write enough to have posts scheduled for every day). Last week was an emotional kind of...

Snapshot: New in town

Weeks ago when Darin and the kids first brought the chicks home I told them I wanted a Silkie as my chicken. We had hopes of having one from my co-worker’s hatch, but there was only one (she was a...

Friday Five: Practical Mother’...

Gift-giving kind of sucks, am I right? Sometimes it gets so stressful between expenses and preferences and not knowing whether the recipient will actually like the gift that it can be completely overwhelming....

Three for three

It’s House & Home day here at Two Plus Four, but I’m breaking my self-imposed rule/topic to talk about my kids. They are, after all, what makes a house feel like a home (or an insane asylum,...

Auntie babysits

Darin and I have had the pleasure to keep our niece Eleanor for a few hours over the last two weekends. She’s five months old now and not mobile, which means she’s easy as pie to take care of. She...