Tag: writing
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When Pearl Turns Out to Be Pete: How to Tell If Your Hen Is a Rooster
She came home in April as a splash Ameraucana chick — pale and milky and mottled, the whole bird the color of the inside of a shell. That’s where the name came from. Pearl. It was the obvious thing to call her and I didn’t think about it twice.
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A Gift for the Security Detail: Bonnie’s Crow Stack Fall Porch Leaner
hand-stenciled Happy Fall porch leaner — three stacked crows on a fat orange pumpkin — that Bonnie painted to honor the crows keeping watch over my hens. Here’s her no-bleed process, start to finish.
