The Chicken Mama

I’m Baaack!

There were a lot of chickens at the Fair, but none as lovely as my Sarah, who started molting while I was working.

Well, it was quite the week working the Denver County Fair!

I’m still decompressing and wrapping up …

I’ve been thinking about, and tinkering with, names lately. When I can’t sleep at 4am, my mind has lots of time to roam. (My ability to sleep somehow has gotten worse over the past year. That’s kinda like a bald …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Chickens

Partners in Crime

Keela is a skilled napper.

Here at Happy Mama Acre, we are tired. We need a nap.

Lots of great things going on, but it’s all happening at the same time and I’m having a hard time keeping up.

I’m …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Chickens, Doink and The Goats

My Gardening Confession

Special, isn’t it? Says hello to me at the front door every day. And I still don’t water it.

My name is Joan, and I’m a gardening failure.

There. I’ve said it.

Do you think less of me now? Lordy, …

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Filed Under: Mostly Human

A Goat By Any Other Name

He’s the George Clooney of goats. Drop dead gorgeous!

First, an update. We’re a little over a week with our beautiful new baby goat. And things are getting better. Not as fast as I’d like, but then that’s my ongoing …

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Filed Under: Around the Barnyard, Doink and The Goats