Bantams for some reason really like being on the coop roof. This is a hen.
Hey: I am quite sure a lot of you all read this blog through a reader, but…I wanted to point out that the hosted blog has had a few changes made to it. Come on over to the site and take a look.
I feel compelled to mop things up at this time of the year. (Either that, or I’m motivated by chaos, at least temporarily: that kitchen renovation that I mentioned is hobbling along…and it’s still needed as a kitchen.) So. Above, I have redone the pages (those little tab things at the top of the blog) and have done a little more ‘splainin’ about things that make this little homestead a bit unique, like Loven and the goats and the greenhouses.
There’s a tab, too, about 2011 and what it portends, farm-wise…it’s not a list of goals, just a list of the other bits of craziness that we’ve signed on to for this year.
And lastly: I often get asked if I teach classes. I have, but I don’t do it often enough to make it worth anyone’s while. Fortunately I know a really wonderful woman who is a natural teacher, and whose enthusiasm and openness is a great thing to experience. Her name is Shawna and I will have a running list of her farm’s offerings in my sidebar this year. If you live in the area, sign up!
Different day, different bird: Michael Jackson, daddy to the hen above, mid-crow in the morning.
Glad you came to visit!
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Thanks for the heads up about the page changes – I love my RSS, but it does mean missing out on some of these design moments 🙂 Happy New Year!
I read your blog the old-fashioned way – on a webpage – as I haven’t figured out RSS yet (laziness). And I have to say, I love the new look! Brilliant layout, and I like the new header. I’ve been reading your blog for awhile and your energy on-and-off blog never ceases to amaze me!
Bees! How exciting, can’t wait to here more about it/them.:)
I like the new setup, the new tabs are nice. Any chance of a search function? I find in seed order season I go back through favorite blogs going “what was that bean they liked again?”
Good luck on the ongoing remodel! I know how it goes living in unfinished projects 🙂
Oh how I miss living up there! We used to live in Holland and if I was still there I would definitely tap into the classes your friend is offering. Thanks for sharing about your life.
It’s nice. . . Nice redesign. And a lovely way to self-distract, I’d wager.
Hi Mama Bean! RSS does make it a lot easier to keep up on things, doesn’t it? (I am still on the fence if it makes my blog-reading life more productive or not though!) I hope you’re enjoying 2011 so far too.
Ah Maria. Believe me, I will bet you’re not the only reader-free reader out there…but I am glad you like the new look. I tend to feel like such a techno-avoider too: the blog is as far as I go, no twitter, no facebook, no cell phone (!) and still I survive!
Mike, I figure having my own home-grown pollinators can’t hurt, right? We’ll definitely fill you in. Tom’s so excited about his class!
Sara, I use the search box at the extreme top right to find my *own* way around the blog, but yeah, you have to be kind of specific. “beans” I am quite sure will give you at least a hundred posts on this blog…! but as you know I am a bean fool. But email works too, so, ask away when you’re curious.
JoAnn, we’d always welcome you back, you know! Come on up.
Thanks, Ms S. Ah, self-distraction, I dunno: more like it’s time to polish the silver. An unending task, yet necessary. And: it was something to do when I waited for the paint to dry!