Well over a year actually since my last post. I figure since everyone's popping over because of the Tumblr purge, I'd do a bit of an update. If you follow me on twitter, you know all this.

I started raising poultry this year.



This the first batch of hatchery choice ducks that I got last winter and raised through a thoroughly nasty cold winter. I do not recommend a) raising poultry in your house (especially if your husband has a very sensitive nose) and b) doing it when the temp is around 0F for days and the hose is frozen. But many of them are still alive (except for the ones that got turned into dinners) and laying eggs like crazy.

Then, in May, I decided to raise another batch! This time it was all heritage Magpie ducks for me, and a bunch of heritage Sumatran breed chickens for the friend I rent pasture from.



Chickens, it turns out, are much more delicate than ducks and I had a harder time with them. Also they grow wing feather first (ducks do back and belly feathers first) and they got all over my basement. Thankfully with the spring weather and a large rabbit enclosure, I was able to keep the ducks outside so I only had to deal with the chickens in the house.

I apparently have not uploaded any pictures more recent than May to Flickr so I don't have recent duck pics.

However, I have a bunch of pictures of the puppies I just got done fostering!



Jasmine and her pups came to me at 3 days old and I just got them adopted out on Saturday.

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The google album I just shared with their adopters has over 1000 pictures in it omg.

I consider these my big touch points for the year. I also did some work stuff like launching a whole microsite for our awards gala, and exercise stuff like starting to work with a personal trainer but honestly ducks are cooler.