Tales from the Raven

These are the lovely little guinea eggs, ready to pop in the incubator.
      
They’re from a mixed flock, so we have high hopes that we’ll get a veritable rainbow of little guineas…just as soon as we can turn these babies into chicks!  The problem is that our not-so-lovely little square chicken,
 
aka incubator, has gone on [...]

One of my favorite things about living on the other side of nowhere is all the wildlife we see and the number of birds that drop by.  We’ve got one feeder in the garden that we recently loaded down with orange halves, a suet block, my homemade bread wreath, and of course, a traditional feeder [...]

The snow is almost gone, and the Ice Pirates are panicking.  They thought they had a pretty good hideout, complete with a mean billy goat watch dog, but it’s melting fast.
 
Now they’re scrambling to move their stolen goods before the warm weather comes.

I’ve suggested they try one of our hollow trees, but they plan to [...]

This is what happens when you make bread without paying close attention:
 
It may look like some kind of delicious bundt cake with a scrumptious icing (maybe if your prescription glasses need updating?) but it’s actually a loaf of bread that has at least one, perhaps two extra cups of flour.  When I was halfway through the [...]

Finally, it’s finished!  I’ve been working on my scarf–you remember, the one that was temporarily Mr. Top Hat Man?  And thanks to my beloved Scrape Exchange I got to weave in all kinds of fun colors.  I was having so much fun, it got longer…and longer…

It doesn’t quite reach the floor, but it’s a good [...]

I know everyone else is posting pics of the snow, but I’ve been too busy dealing with the after effects of our basement flood from almost a week ago.
Here’s the laundry, or most of it:
 
And here are the books that now reside on our kitchen table.  They wave their pages gently in the breeze, and [...]

Once again a late post–but, at least this time I have a good excuse!  We spent the weekend down at Wilmington and the beach…
We came back to a flooded basement.  I’m thinking this is our chance to go through our (damp) boxes and see which of the stuff really must be rescued, and which can [...]

This is also a Wednesday post masquerading as a Thursday post.  Not sure why I keep missing the big W…I may need to bow to my caprice and make Thursday my post day, instead.  But then I’d be tempted to commit to Tuesday posts, as well, and the only thing you guys would see those nights would [...]

Friday night we tried to get out.  Might’ve worked, too, but someone slipped word to the world so it went and hid.  Tomorrow we’re going to try again, so mum’s the word.  We’re going to see one of the big exotic films of the season–
The Frog and the Princess.
What were you thinking?  Surely not a [...]

I really never expected myself to become a yarn enthusiast, but, here I am.  Not only did I make a pretty good purse out of yarn (pics coming soon) but I’m now making a scarf.
We go in for the really over-the-top projects around here.
Only trouble is, I only have one skein of the yarn…and I’m going [...]