Time has a way of weeding out the trivial.  That’s one of my favoured expressions.  In this case, however, time has a way of weeding out my chickens.  The last remaining embryo died over the weekend.  I’m not too surprised, really.  I thought the embryo looked small for dates.  Saddened perhaps, but not surprised. 
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I started a sister page on Xanga, and cut and pasted my pics over to here.  FINALLY!   
My dear son

My dog Smokey.  He can be a pain, but he’s so HANDSOME!

This is the view of the mountain ridge at our cabin in Wyoming.  I did play with this photo a little.

This is from along [...]

  Ok, so not really.  I’m not sure, but I think it’s the humid, 80 degree days that give it away.
  But I did get an early present, though.  My mortgage lender refunded my loan application fee.  That was a very pleasant and unexpected surprise.  It showed up as a credit on my credit card.  [...]

  Of all the eggs I origionally put into the incubator, only one remains alive.  Most have died over the past few days.  I think it must be because 2 more from my nest robbing hatched, and I had to increase the humidity to help them out.  I think that kind of fluctuation is bad [...]

  So today we had the carpets cleaned, and I received many inquiries from Scott the carpet guy.  He is quite familiar with DH’s family, as he’s been doing their carpets for years.  He’s not too familiar with us, however.  He came last a year ago in June, before we moved in.  Nice enough guy.
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  Today I canned up 8 pints of bread and butter pickles, put away one quart of fresh frozen rhubarb (from my dad’s garden), and froze 1 quart of grated zucchini for bread making.  Yesterday I made 2 loaves of banana/blueberry/walnut bread.  Yummy, but very moist.  I could put away several more bags of zucchini, [...]

  Well, after much thought and internal debate, I decided to load up the 3 chicks from the crate and see if I could graft them on to mama down in the hen house.  After all, I’ll need  the crate again soon, if any of my eggs hatch.  The most I have read up to [...]

  I am so very aggrivated right now.  Wednesday, I thought perhaps I was missing a chick.   How could that be, I asked myself, since they are in a wire cage, and can’t fit though the slats?  Surely I must have mis-counted.  5 inside the cage, and 3 down in the hen house with my [...]

Garden!  (Did you just learn something about yourself?  You were thinking “nose”, weren’t you?)
  Anyway,  today I put up 16 quart freezer bags full of green and yellow beans.  This makes 22 total.  I put up 3 quarts on the 1st and another 3 quarts on the 8th (which I just really learned that writing [...]

Well, I have had a family of foxes living next door to my chicken house. All was well, and I thought that they had grown up and moved on. Apparently not, since on Saturday they killed 1 rooster (my spangled hamburg) and a brown hen. Then Sunday they killed 2 [...]