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Loss.
My parents have been taking care of my chickens since we moved to Salem. My mom is just as careful as I am about keeping them safe - locked up at night, checking on them several times a day.Well this...
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The Coop Has Landed
We have been plotting about how we were going to move the coop the last 20 feet. I was surprised to come home yesterday and Aaron had already moved it. By himself. He felt awful about Olive and took...
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Smoky Hot Sauce
We have been working on our hot sauce recipe for three years now, taking good notes along the way. It started out with a mixture of internet recipes and we have tweaked it each year to suit our...
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Plans
We finally got the city to set a time to inspect our chicken coop for today, it only took 3 phone calls and Aaron visiting the office twice. In one day. Nobody seemed to be able to give us any...
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Mini Pies Ease the Pain
Well we did get our chickens moved over that day. I still haven't received any "proof" that we are legal, but the officer said we were good to go. It took me a while, but I did get that pie filling...
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Long Weekend
What a nice long weekend! I've been off since Thursday, Aaron had to work early Friday morning, but was off by 2. We both had today off and got a lot done around here.Thanksgiving was good, we took a...
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Pear Juice
A few weeks ago I did a Salem Harvest with pears. I came home with a lot. Like I picked a whole large tree by myself and took half. They took quite a long time to ripen, but we were soon faced with...
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Turkey Broth
Every time we cook a turkey we use the frame to make broth. This Thanksgiving we were given the best leftovers of all - the turkey bones! We stuck it all in the freezer until we had time to make it....
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Birthday Dinner
I have a couple of catch up posts from the months when we were frantically getting as much done in the new house before we had to move.We had my birthday dinner at my favorite place to eat ever -...
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Christmasy
It's definitely getting Christmasy around here. Dec. 1 I got serious about shopping, and did most of it that weekend. I have a few more gifts to find, but for the most part everything is purchased...
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Christmas Caramels
The last two years we have gifted these caramels to our friends and families. They do take some time to make, but are not overly difficult, and one batch makes more than enough for all of our people...
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Glittery Animal Ornaments
Somewhere online I found glittery animal ornaments and knew I had to make them. I carefully chose my animals from all over the place. Sea creatures, bugs, and more sea creatures. The African...
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Improving
We've been hard at work over here. Lots of rewiring to get rid of the knob and tube. We've also added switches and outlets to more convenient places and gotten rid of the ones that didn't make sense....
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Oh I have so many things I want to share. But I've been overwhelmed. Which leads to no blogging. The impending spring is STRESSING me out. It's always a busy time of year, but with all the work on...
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Clawfoot Tub
We spent this weekend shopping in Portland for house things. The plan for the downstairs bathroom has always involved a clawfoot tub. Because it's such a small space, we needed a tiny one. 54 inches...
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Color Wheel
Getting ready to paint the front door. Hopefully it will go smoother than the disastrous fireplace debacle that still needs rectification.
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San Fran
In September (oops, meant to post this a while back) I flew to SF to visit my good friend Ashlee. I don't remember many of the details from this trip, but posting something feels better than posting...
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Love
We finally got some art up in the guest bedroom. These prints were done by Aaron's sister Anna, each color was screen printed individually and they are gorgeous! We got Ikea frames (Ribba) and had...
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New Door, Blue Door
This project was long overdue! The front door has been sticking out like a sore thumb in the living room. This weekend we decided to tackle it. We picked out Sherwin Williams Jetstream...and got the...
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Potential
Anyone see an awesome rustic coffee table waiting to be creating in this old wood that came with the house? Those big slabs are tight grain old growth. If we had 3 of the full sized boards it would...
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