by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions, Urban Homesteading
Three feet long, two feet wide, two-and-a-half feet deep. It’s the second time I’ve dug a grave with these dimensions, and that 15 cubic feet of dirt seems to grow heavier-and lighter-each time. The reality of owning chickens is that they are frail, delicate creatures...
by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions, Photography, Urban Homesteading
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since we picked up these little fluff balls that totally changed our lives. It’s been a year of chicks, ducklings, bantam adoptees, sick birds and eggs gallore. Never have I felt so helpless and so enamored with such tiny...
by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions, Urban Homesteading
There are so many things in life you learn best by simply diving in. Our adventures in homesteading is one such example. That said, there is one thing I wish I would have known before I started raising chickens: one disease that is almost everywhere and yet often...
by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions
That time of the year came around again like it always does… Holiday card time! This process is a good excuse to pause and take stock of the year. And I think it’s fair to say that 2014 was one of the biggest, most exciting years of my life. In Dec 2013, I...
by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions
We have a 2×3-foot white board in our kitchen with assorted lists: Outside chores to-do Inside house to-do Nicole to-do John to-do On Wednesday, September 17th, I wiped away all of those lists and replaced it with this: We found out our six-year-old dog, Honey,...
by Nicole | Aug 18, 2025 | confessions, Honey
In the past two weeks since Honey’s diagnosis, I’ve been astonished and touched by the response I’ve received from friends, family, the Buffer team and the Buffer community. Every tweet, email, note, gift and kind word has resonated so deeply. I...
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