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Hooray for snow! Your description of shaking your jacket bring to mind the Spanish bull fighters, only trying to break up two bulls from fighting. 🤪

I moved from a zone 5 area (historically zone 4 until the USDA adjusted zones to reflect more recent data due to climate change) to zone 6 (historically zone 5). The warmer zone, plus finding a variety that is reputed to be more cold hardy than any other type means I’m reasonably confident it...

I love this. Two fluffy butt excavators with Gaston supervising. 😆 Where I live now is technically within the range for some of the hardier pomegranate varieties, and I’m tempted to give it a try. Spring is always such a crapshoot here in Utah though and late frosts aren’t uncommon, even...

They definitely look much more matronly now, don’t they? Congratulations on the milestone, but more importantly, congratulations on your growth as a chicken keeper learning to give these girls their best possible life!

I’m glad he had his redeeming qualities, even if the annoying ones show more often! 😆 Rendering must have been correct, because I was able to find information about it! Thanks for the information on rendering @Perris , I think part of my ignorance is in part because houses here just haven’t...

I know you don’t care for your partner’s father, but it was really nice of him to come help - that’s a massive job to take on! I’m really glad you’re getting it done though, it’s definitely not a good idea having it so close to the house. I had to look up rendering walls (not a term I’m...

Insert does translate directly, at least to me. That’s good to know about it clearing the roofline, I’ll have to poke around on the internet and see if I can’t figure out what’s going on. It would be nice to use it again. The fireplace is open right now, my grandfather bought an iron hook so...

My family has a cabin in the mountains. It has a big river rock fireplace, and is quite tall. It was assumed when it was built that it would draw air properly but there’s a flaw somewhere and you can’t light a fire unless you open a window in the basement for it to vent correctly. I wonder if...

Poor Blanche. I can imagine it is quite a blow to one’s ego! That’s a funny observation.

Poor Gaston! I think it’s funny that he whimpers. Only one of of the cockerels I rehomed was crowing (to be expected) but his crow sounded more like a scream than an actual crow. Maybe he’ll get it sorted out eventually.

Tax: The older ladies have taken to the area in the back of the coop with lots of cushy straw. The juvenile birds tend to hang out on the roosting bars above.

I have a sister who lives in Portland - I understand the climate to be similar to that of the British Isles - and it is very grey and rainy this time of year. We’ve had several storm systems move through here lately, the snowpack in the mountains is an astonishing 130% of normal! We are so many...

I’ve been lurking and loving your beautiful photos for a while now. Like most paintings, it’s splotches when you look at it up close, but when you step back it’s recognizable as metal cans. My brother in law has a fascinating eye, he does landscapes quite nicely, and has done several still life...

My brother in law is a painter and did this study in black and white, with a tiny amount of color in three places. I love it, as does my husband. We’ve had a few guests who don’t like it - either the colors, the subject (why would you paint garbage?) or both. I find the use of black and white so...