Tag: chick
member name: Mary H.
|
September 15, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
I didn't have high hopes for the eggs L.S. and I snuck under the Tawnies. Twice last week the first Ta wny managed to somehow carry an egg about 5 feet away from the nest. Both eggs were smelly when . . .
more
|
|
December 14, 2008 09:09 PM EST --
My second favorite place on the farm is the piney woods. It’s such a sheltered and orderly little forest. It is a Christmas tree lot my great grandfather planted with the help of his grandchildren, and . . .
more
|
|
September 10, 2009 10:29 PM EDT --
When I was 13 I stopped eating meat. I went all "Fern and Wilber" and "where's-Papa-going-with-that-axe?" I didn't eat meat for one very simple reason: I didn't want to harm animals. I had seen Bambi. . . .
more
|
|
September 21, 2008 10:20 PM EDT --
I always feel romantic at the corners of the year. I think it is something about standing on the threshold--any threshold. Here we are at the edge of autumn. It's not here yet, but we know it's . . .
more
|
|
September 29, 2008 12:31 AM EDT --
It is the season of the yellow butterflies and the tiny, biting gnats. I don't know if they are really gnats, but they are the size of a large fleck of pepper and have a silver triangle on their heads. . . .
more
|
|
March 13, 2009 09:44 AM EDT --
Aren't spring shoots amazing? Pushing up out of frozen, grey earth, shouldering aside clods, each shoot with a different shape. A rosette of green tulip leaves is tinged with red, each leaf like the . . .
more
|
|
April 03, 2009 11:19 AM EDT --
Birdland is fresh with spring green and sprouts. Tiny, dicots polka dot the worn spots in the yard, and I wonder what kinds of weeds I might be pulling in the next few weeks. My seeds arrive d in the . . .
more
|
|
April 10, 2009 10:11 AM EDT --
Birdland is damp and overcast today, and the ducks are happy. They wandered off somewhere this morning and I was just sure that they were gone—carried away by a sneaky predat or or lured away by a handsome . . .
more
|
|
June 14, 2009 11:22 AM EDT --
This column was born of letters to friends. In correspondence, I found myself describing in detail the microcosm of my yard. It seemed like I just had to look out the window or walk out to the bean field . . .
more
|
|
July 03, 2009 11:43 AM EDT --
In Birdland the Black-Eyed-Susans are still blooming, and the Jerusalem artichokes are budding. Another yellow flower (one that looks so much like ragweed when it comes up that I used to pull it all . . .
more
|
|
July 15, 2009 10:38 AM EDT --
It’s a sunny day in Birdland, but I need to get something off my chest. I’m tired of the secrecy, the deception, the juggling of half-truths, the panic I get when I realize I’ve left . . .
more
|
|
July 24, 2009 12:03 PM EDT --
In Birdland the sunflowers I planted around the garden coop have grown strong stalks to carry their faces up over the roof of the coop to greet the morning sun. They clear the coop, but are still in the . . .
more
|
|
October 22, 2009 12:52 PM EDT --
It has warmed up some in Birdland, and dried out enough for the harvest to begin. The corn is the color of my dog, Isis, but it's the beans they're cutting now, all day and into the evening, the headlights . . .
more
|
|
December 14, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
An ice storm will slow you down and make you humble. This week the school busses were delayed for an hour one morning because the meteorologist promised that the ice would melt soon if we just wait it . . .
more
|
|
February 09, 2009 03:04 PM EST --
I guess I'm a cheap date. I love the excitement of eating out (and the relaxation of not having to cook or clean the kitchen afterwards) but even more than eating out in a restaurant, I love a community . . .
more
|
|
March 20, 2009 12:21 PM EDT --
Birdland is three daffodils and a bouquet of crocuses closer to Spring. The new chicks arrived safely on Monday and are doing well in the temporary brooder in the aviary. I walk around the yard and survey . . .
more
|
|
April 17, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
Birdland has been in a state of suspended anticipation for a while. The asparagus is shy this year. Though I search for shoots, I don't even find the tiny, new ones hidden in the grass. The peonies . . .
more
|
|
February 13, 2009 10:05 AM EST --
We've had such extreme weather in Birdland, as if February were running through several months in one week, giving us a preview of April. Just when I began to think we were digging into another ice . . .
more
|
|
June 11, 2009 01:35 PM EDT --
Fireflies have returned to Birdland, adding a busy starlight to my evening chores: watering the garden, closing up the chicken coop against night-time predators, thinking about tomorrow’s tasks. . . .
more
|
|
February 09, 2009 03:18 PM EST --
When I was 13 I stopped eating meat. I went all "Fern and Wilber" and "where's-Papa-going-with-that-axe?" I didn't eat meat for one very simple reason: I didn't want to harm animals. I had seen . . .
more
|
|
|
|
