William C. Bryant

"The groves were God's first temples." - William C. Bryant

William Wordsworth

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly." - William Wordsworth

Cheap and Easy Solar Heater

Cheap and Easy Solar Heater - Converting electricity into heat is one of the most inefficient uses of energy. If you’re not convinced, look at the power usage of electric appliances like microwaves, space heaters, water heaters, ovens, or coffee pots. The difference can be seen between your electric bill from a cold month, when ...

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Virgil

"As the twig is bent the tree inclines." - Virgil

Pierre Bonnard

"Art will never be able to exist without nature." - Pierre Bonnard

Elbert Hubbard

"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood." - Elbert Hubbard

Khalil Gibran

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran

Henry David Thoreau

"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature." - Henry David Thoreau

Winter Chicks

We couldn’t believe it when one of our hens started setting in winter, but we let her do it anyway. We moved her and the eggs into one of the barn stalls, where she would be warmer and away from other poultry trying to lay under her. 6 of the eggs hatched and they’re all doing great. The hen is super tame, so the boys are able to hang out with the chicks without upsetting her.

To Leo’s great delight and amusement, one of the chicks started looking for food inside his mouth when he picked one up to kiss. He had just eaten and there must have been something stuck on his teeth that the chick fancied. Both boys were rolling around laughing. Since then, we have started to take them a handful of mealworms each day from our little worm farm. Letting the kids feed the chicks worms out of their hands seems like a much more appropriate feeding method.

Of course, they also insist on taking some mealworms to the ducks as well, who waddle to the gate with surprising speed as soon as they see the kids coming. It won’t be long before they start setting too.

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Winter Chicks

Malcolm de Chazal

"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs." - Malcolm de Chazal

Edmund Burke

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." - Edmund Burke

New Site

For the last month the blog has been out of action. We’ve been working hard to revamp the site, and I didn’t want to keep blogging while we were migrating content. But now we’re back, and I’ll try to catch up with what’s been happening (besides computer work) over the next few days.

In the meantime, go check out the site. It has a new design, new and reworked information, and a bunch more photos. We even have the comments feature re-enabled in the blog.

We hope you like it.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Andre Norton

"There's no night without stars." - Andre Norton

D. H. Lawrence

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." - D. H. Lawrence

Edwin Way Teale

"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm." - Edwin Way Teale

Friedrich Schiller

"Nothing leads to good that is not natural." - Friedrich Schiller

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her." - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Squash Candy

Squash Candy - This simple, delicious and healthy candy is the answer to two challenges that our family faces. The first is that both of our kids, just turned 2 and 5, LOVE all things sweet. They get sugar candy as a treat every once in a while, but we hate to give them too much. This squash candy is a great comp...

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star." - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Philip James Bailey

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art." - Philip James Bailey

Fur and Leather Fanny Pack

Fur and Leather Fanny Pack - I’ve been wanting to make a fanny pack for a while now, something that gives me easy access to coins and notes on market day. So, the other day I set to it and had it finished in less than a day.It has rabbit fur exterior, leather bottom and straps, and fabric interior. There’s a zippered pocket for...

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Samuel Daniel

"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art." - Samuel Daniel

William Cowper

"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God." - William Cowper

Anatole France

"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil." - Anatole France

Blaise Pascal

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." - Blaise Pascal

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart." - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Emily Dickinson

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!" - Emily Dickinson

James Montgomery

"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?" - James Montgomery

Orison Swett Marden

"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest." - Orison Swett Marden

Richard Jefferies

"This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness." - Richard Jefferies