Too much sweet, fluffy, peeping cuteness not to share. If you need a little lift to your day, you are very welcome. A big thanks to our friends at Fluffy Butts Farm for gifting us a couple dozen fertilized eggs … Continue reading
This week, while I was away at EPIC summer camp, Ben built a new screen door to replace our destroyed-by-hairy-mainac-beasts pile-of-rubbish screen door featured in the last blog post. Basically, he built a better mousetrap, if you will. This time, he … Continue reading
There’s been a bit of a baby boom of the feathered variety at Cockamamy Farm this summer! This Mama Hen went broody (that means she gets all hormonal and is bound and determined to hatch out some babies so she sits … Continue reading
On April 1, 2014, we closed on the purchase of a run-down house (deemed basically worthless by our appraiser) sitting on 7+ mostly wooded acres situated in a creek bottom. The house looked like this: You can get a full tour … Continue reading
These days, I’m living by the old adage, Better late than never. And so here we are, almost two weeks into the new year, and I’m finally getting the finishing touches on our look back at Cockamamy Farm in 2016. This … Continue reading
Merry, merry, friends! And a very happy Christmas to you and yours!! Here’s a Cockamamy Christmas letter from us and ours (featuring our fabulously colored doors)… The elders face off…and usually share this look with each other when the puppies are … Continue reading
Near the end of June, my friend Kristin came to me with a couple of small (albeit fluffy and super cute) problems… Her 13 year-old daughter, Makayla, had received two tiny chicks as a gift. At this point, the babies, named … Continue reading
Welcome to your new home, Cockamamy brood! Ben has renovated the Mantainer to create a full-on indoor-outdoor romper room for our egg-laying ladies and their gentleman caller. It is such a sweet pad! And although it has taken a while for our ladies … Continue reading
Holy cow!! April…what happ…May?? This spring has been a crazy whirlwind of insanity! No, things have not calmed down. But I can no longer handle the self-imposed guilt of not having published a blog in two months. The shame!! So, … Continue reading
Last time I posted about our sweet Okra’s journey of healing, her wounds looked like the photo below. That was about six weeks ago. Today, her side is completely healed and covered in hair! It is amazing to me to look … Continue reading
