Thanks to a warm, moist southern wind (thanks sister!), we now have 28 degrees and snow.  Walking down to the chicken coop after work tonight was a rather pleasant experience.  One can easily gaze across the land, for through these snowy clouds a nearly full moon is shining.  Did you know:  Snowflakes landing really [...]

  I feel like I live in a deep freezer.  Yep.  It’s that cold outside.  Saturday night the Pervy Sage (my fiance) and I ran an electrical cord to the chicken coop to hang a few heat lamps.  We also installed an electric base heater for the waterer to sit on.  It’s worked well to keep the [...]

Winter has her fingers curled tightly around our days, preventing all but a few rare glimpses at a sun that is reluctant to shine.  She is stingy with her snow, and generous with the cold arctic winds that blow.  A drab grey sky has blanketed the world around us.
Seemingly oblivious to this are my dear chickens, who [...]

  For Christmas, I received a cute gift basket from an employee at work.  It’s ginger bread themed, with a really good smelling ginger bread man made of soap.  My ds MJ, found the basket in the bathroom and explored the contents.  He came out with the ginger man and asked what it was.  I told [...]

  Oh if only I could get these photos to load…. my ds sleeping on the couch intermingled with my two weimaraners.  It’s quite a dear sight.  I can’t wait to show him in the morn.  I promise to show you sometime.
  For some silly reason, when I try to upload, it tells me that the [...]

   Welcome to my blog!
Introductions are in order I presume.   I am a homeschoolin, homesteadin, mom of one.  My passions are my family (of course!), photography, gardening (and preservin!), chickens, and all my other little critters as well.  
And what is Life on Five?  Well, it’s us.  It’s what we do.  It’s where we live, [...]