Chickens

I want a couple of chickens, five at the most, to provide fresh eggs and bug control. Our neighbors think it's hilarious for a city girl to want chickens and planted ceramic birds in the yard while we were out. Miss Critterpants has claimed them and gives them mud baths in her garden box.

Someday we're getting chickens, a straight run of easter egg chickens from Cackle Hatchery, in a few years when Miss is in school and I can't travel like I do now. Easter egg chickens lay blue, green and sometimes even pink eggs! A straight run is a mixed group of chicks, so there are boys and girls sent to you in the same box. Once they arrive and mature it is a game of survivor, one rooster stays, the others also stay. They stay very, very still in the freezer.

Root Cellar

View of the backyard from the porch circa 2008

Someday, we will have a root cellar. there is talk of renting a backhoe this summer to dig a foundation for The Bedroom Wing and the root cellar would go beneath The Wing. A secret trap door in the floor to another door in the ground. We agreed on an air gap between The Bedroom Wing floor and the root cellar. My Guy wants it for insulation purposes and i want the gap to prevent the funk of stored cabbages and onions seeping into our house and clothes and lives.