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Once Upon a Flock

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Our power was out yesterday…..almost all day.  There was some type of equipment failure down the street. It was actually a really nice day without any distractions. I finished a book and read most of a new one, Mr. LBB went for a long bike ride, Boo played “college” with her dolls. I’m starting to think the Little House on the Prairie life would be more and more attractive to us (plus occasional Wi-Fi of course).

I started reading this book Once Upon a Flock yesterday and haven’t put it down. It’s chicken non-fiction. A memoir. Lauren Scheuer writes about her addition of a small flock of chickens to her family…..writing about how she takes care of them, the personalities each chicken takes on, etc.

Once upon a Flock by Lauren Scheuer via lilblueboo.com

 

Her little illustrations are so endearing and the stories made me tear up and laugh at the same time. It’s a fun book to read your kids too because of all the photos and drawings she includes.

A book on raising chickens (a chicken memoir!) via lilblueboo.com

It’s a sweet mixture of Charlotte’s Web meets James Herriot meets “you’ll want to raise chickens now.”  It made me reflect on our own family pet Diesel and how much there is to love and observe about a tiny animal…….and how much they can teach us about ourselves. And it made me think of Mr. LBB who just 2 days ago tried to save a bird that ran into our window with chest compressions. He wasn’t able to save the poor bird but he did give him an honorable burial.

And guess what I just told Mr. LBB……I want to raise chickens now.

Just wanted to share that today.

 

]P.S. Lauren has a blog called Scratch and Peck that her book is based on.

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Things I Wanted to Tell You

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a random collection of interesting finds and good reads (at least I think so…)


I love the Google Art Project. You can zoom in on famous works of art to see up close detail….closer than you’d ever be allowed to get in a museum. Here’s a closeup of my zooming in on a  necklace in Renoir’s Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette:

Looks kind of like a peacock feather:

 

If I baked….this is what I would make:

cake crumbs jupiter via lilblueboo.com spherical cake tutorial

earth cake crumbs via lilblueboo.com spherical cake tutorial

 

Here is the link to the Earth Cake.

Here is the link to the Jupiter Cake.

And here is the link to the Spherical Concentric Layer Cake tutorial.

 

 

I do not condone vandalism….but at least this graffiti is done where no one can really see it right?  Check out the rest of the hotel graffiti art here:

 

Never heard of a cucamelon and now I know I’ve been looking for them all my life. Miniature rocks. I wish they were actually little watermelons so I could slice them into wedges and serve to a family of ants.

“Incredible, small cucumber-like fruit are shaped like baby watermelons. They are good added to salads or can be pickled. They have a cucumber-like taste with a touch of lemon.” – Rare Seeds

 

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