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New chicks in the making!
Monday, 20 Jul, 2009 – 5:48 | No Comment
New chicks in the making!

I am going to be grandfather again, and this time it better be a big bunch of chicks!
Chicken chicks that is One of our chicken didn’t leave her nest today, so we have …

Too much water in the basement
Saturday, 11 Jul, 2009 – 23:53 | No Comment
Too much water in the basement

Really: old things break down more easily than younger things…
Health is an issue when you get older and well, machines just break down…
My water-pump in the basement finally broke down after more than 40 …

Garden: almost done
Saturday, 11 Apr, 2009 – 3:11 | No Comment
Garden: almost done

Well, we just need to wait until the 10th of May before we can finish the job putting the fragile tomatoes, zucchinis, cucumbers and sweet peppers in the open air.
Meanwhile our cat is having kittens …

Growing tomatoes
Tuesday, 17 Mar, 2009 – 7:26 | No Comment
Growing tomatoes

It’s March, so my computer is enjoying his retirement, because I am in the garden and the greenhouse
Every August people ask me what strawberries to plant and every March, people ask me what …

Monster eggs
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 3:00 | No Comment
Monster eggs

Today I started off with a big breakfast: big because one of my chicken had laid an egg of 107gr, which is about 4 ounce. No time to take a picture as I was hungry …

How to use birch juice?
Friday, 27 Feb, 2009 – 7:04 | No Comment
How to use birch juice?

In my previous post, Birch beer, I told you how to tap the juices from the Birch tree. You need to do this now or in spring that is before the leaves are out (otherwise …

Pruning roses
Monday, 23 Feb, 2009 – 10:56 | No Comment
Pruning roses

Prunes and roses: as if summer is in full swing…
Yet it’s still February so no fruit available but ideal time to prune the roses before they start growing again due to a way too …

Our geese are hatching
Saturday, 7 Feb, 2009 – 10:54 | No Comment
Our geese are hatching

As usual around this time of the year, our daddy and mommy goose started hatching their eggs.

I intend not to give them names because maybe 1 day they need to end up in a …

Hot tulip
Friday, 30 Jan, 2009 – 13:29 | No Comment
Hot tulip

This is most likely a tulip enjoying her retirement like me: not using any watch nor calendar

It has just been around 1 month that I planted tulips, and already 1 is growing above …

How do snails reproduce
Monday, 29 Sep, 2008 – 6:02 | No Comment
How do snails reproduce

Let me answer you ‘how do snails reproduce’ : kind of like normal people: when they drink too much beer, they think they can be superman in bed, but what really happens is that they …