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by Meredith Chilson Photos by author The rest of the story… I’ve been thinking a lot about cycles and seasons this week.  The summer season is quickly turning into fall, for example.  The hummingbird feeder has had no visitors for over a week, and electric and phone lines are full of birds waiting for the […]

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by Meredith Chilson Photos by author I’ve been reading with interest and nostalgia fellow blogger Rebecca Nickols’s articles about her broody hen. I remember well the times I would go to the nests, and a hen would puff up and hiss at me. The growly sound of a broody hen is something I won’t soon […]

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by Meredith Chilson Photos by author The newest additions to our poultry flock arrived safely a week ago. The dozen chicks have adjusted nicely to living within a cardboard corral and, as it is with all babies, I can’t believe how fast they are growing and changing! We’ve spent a big chunk of time watching […]

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