The Chicken Taj Mahal Gets a Fence

Our egg fac­to­ries con­tin­ue to receive far too much atten­tion and far too many lux­u­ries. Espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing they haven’t pro­duced a sin­gle egg yet. Over the week­end we built a fence to sur­round the Chick­en Taj Mahal. The fence isn’t designed … 

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Housekeeping

A few months ago I moved some things — includ­ing the files for this blog — around on the servers. It all seemed to go just fine — until… I upgrad­ed the word­press installs. All the old­er image links broke. Luck­i­ly I fig­ured out just how … 

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What’s Blooming

Last week in the gar­den we had: Daisies every­where. The pas­ture is cov­ered with them.  On the west side of the house we have the slen­der deutzia in bloom at the back of the herb bed. And sea pinks sur­round­ing the inceeas­ing­ly tall … 

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Playing with (paper) Dolls

This lit­tle har­le­quin dancer is sit­ting on my work­table wait­ing for a face. That’s always the hard part. I start­ed with the doll parts and some fan­cy red and gold paper that became her tights. Then she got a skirt. I started … 

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Words Found Today

In the cor­ner of the page con­tain­ing a pat­tern for cut­ting out a joint­ed paper doll. 1. Enlarge or reduce tem­plate to desired size. 2. Cut out. 3. Embell­ish and attach pieces togeth­er. I think these may be the lost direc­tions for life.

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