Knitting

October 31st-
Don't make fun of me. Yes, I have chickens, and rabbits, and yes i am knitting now, yes I live in Maine. It does not make me a hick, i still have all of my teeth.
Anyways, I knit a scarf for myself and then decided to learn how to make mittens for Tony. First attempt was too small and the seam was off. Second attempt came out pretty good though. Now I just need to make a second one to match it. I also got this purple merino mix but I dont know what to make yet. Maybe a hat but I need to get different needles to do that.

Here's the scarf and it's messy surroundings.

Better mitten, the seam is only a little crooked.

Don't know what to make, this is just practice.

Healing

October 30th-
My arm is healing up nicely. The nodes are still swollen and hard, but no where near what they were. I have been taking daily pics of the wound so that i can make a kind of flipbook slide show type thing showing it healing, like time lapse i guess. Is that normal?

I Don't Like Rabbits

October 28th-
I don't like rabbits, but these are not rabbits, they are little bunnydoggy things. They aren't so manic like those regular old, good for nothing but stew rabbits. No, my bunnydoggies are like little cuddly teddy bears that I will harvest fiber from. I got two angora rabbits from a very friendly and helpful lady name Betty Stover up at Spinnakees Farm. The boy is a little over a year old, pure german angora. He came named Hagrid II. Betty had just sheared him so his coat is short right now. The little girl is about 4 months, has no name yet, and is part german, part french. The french is where the color comes from. She is referred to as a fawn agouti.

chicken pooped a green one

October 28th-
Finally, a second hen has decided to lay. Apparently Jezebel has been laying for a few days, but not in the nest boxes in the coop. She had tucked herself into a corner outside the house and was laying there. Bodhi was outside and decided to pee right next to where she was, I think that is the only reason we saw her there. I actually watched her lay. Her eggs are a pretty sage green color. She is a cross breed referred to as an Easter Egger. It is a mix between Ameraucanas, which lay blue eggs, and a brown egg laying breed. So E.E. eggs can be green or blue.

Warning, Grossness

I'll type later

Node Now

Here is right now, post surgery.

Infected

Here is a better picture showing how infected it was.

Spooning Kitty

the saga continues

October 24th -
Well we are reaching the one month mark of this swollen lymphnode business, so today I went into Maine Medical Hospital to have it cut open and drained. It was actually a lot more painful of a procedure than I think I was expecting. I took a couple codenes prior to it, but didn't think to bring more pills with me. The ride home became very uncomfortable. It was a strong , sharp burning sensation. Guess that could be attributed to the open laceration they left on my arm. It needs to be left open to continue to drain. Anyways, I am all drugged up now and feeling okay. Thought I would put up a few before photos. I will add more later.

There is something wrong with me!

They told me I have mono.

Now they think there is something else wrong with me. All i know is there is an alien pod growing in my elbow and my armpit and if the damn doctors don't fix me soon, I will have a baby alien explode out of my arm.

The girls are now ladies.....or men

Well, we messed up a little I guess. Two of the girls are now roosters.Hey, at least I didn't think my kitten was a boy for 8 months only to find out it was a girl (eehm, Rachel) from the vet. Ambrosia (Tony named her, don't look at me) is still the only one laying, but she does it like clockwork. Buffy and Rose are our roosters, we may need some new names. T wants to kill Rose, but I won't let him. Not yet at least. He thinks we should change his name to Dinner. I stapled up some plastic on the windows and added more shavings to the floor to help keep the coop a little warmer this winter. Next step is creating some type of heater to keep their water dish from freezing. We also need to repair the roof of the coop, as there was some major leakage the other day in a heavy rain storm......thats up to Tony.

Tree meet house, House meet tree

We get some amazing storms and winds out here. I guess it has to do with are location being close to mt washington. Anyways, we had a crazy windstorm take down a large limb of one of the maple trees. it fell onto the back porch, but luckily didn't cause any damage to the house.. only a little damage was caused to Tony in his attempts to cut it down by himself.

Chicken Pooped an Egg!!! September 26th

Finally!!! The damn birds can start earning their keep. We've been waiting weeks. I think Whitey is the one laying, so far one each morning 3 days in a row. Another new development in they roost in the tree at night. We kinda just stopped locking them in the coop, but we need to get them back in before they become a coyote meal. Also we now think Buffy is a rooster. Dammit. If she he starts crowing in the morning I'm not gonna be happy. The eggs are exciting though. They have all looked different but todays was almost the size of a large store bought egg. They are still warm when I find them in the mornings.

Smitten-August 3rd

Thursday morning was rainy and grey. I was about to get in the car to go to work when I heard a meow. A tiny grey kitten was tucked into my front tire well.After about 10 minutes of fighting her to get her out I won. Surprisingly Tony seemed to want to keep her. I was unsure because I didn't want it to affect the boys (a forewarning I should have taken) but we ended up keeping her. Tony named her Nora, but we have many other names for her including snora, smitten, smitty, and scooby.

Nova Scotia-July 24th-Aug 1st

Tony, Mom, and I went up tp Nova Scotia for a week at the end of July. Lots of time in the car........ but all in all a good trip. The cabin certainly wasn't in good shape, but hey, it was still standing. Here are a few pics, I'll have to get some others from mom.
Whats up with the gnome you ask??? I think my mother is going crazy, but it was funny.

The Girls

Here are our chickens. There are 7 in all and we hope they are all hens. No names yet. They all have they're own personalities and get excited when people are around. When I came home from work yesterday they all ran up to the fence to greet me. I dont have individual pics of everyone yet but here's what I have. They are aruacanas, cochins, golden comets, silverspangled something, and maybe a white rock,,,, dunno, i'm still learning.

F-ing Coop

Never again will we build a chicken coop together. The one day project turned into a 2 week hell. I think Tony and I were ready to throw punches. After countless chicken wire cuts, continous head bumps off the rafters, and near heat stroke, it is finally finished. Tony worked in the rain and at night by flashlight to get it done. And it came out pretty damn good. Time to get the f-ing chickens.

We're In

We moved in sometime around may 25th. The actual move wasn't as bad as I was expecting, maybe because Tony did more of it than me. Moving the boys was not so fun. Bodhi cried the whole ride until we were about 5 minutes from the house. Once there he settled right in and Thera took on the role of the freaked out kitty, hiding for the next few days. The first two weeks were 95% rainey days, lots of back and forth drives from Harrison to Bath, and a visit from mom. Now, almost a month later, things are starting to settle down. The sun has been out for the last two days, and we are both burnt to a crisp. Here are some new pics: