Frodo – Our “Watch-chicken”

August 10, 2012

We are the happy and much entertained owners of four chickens. We brought them home from a local feed store …

A Monarch Emerges

August 9, 2012

A few photos of a monarch butterfuly emerging from its chrysalis. This was a delightful morning occupation both yesterday and …

August 8, 2012

On July 30th five of our monarch caterpillars entered their chrysalises. This morning they emerged – no longer fat squishy …

July 31, 2012

Yesterday, about 15 hours after attaching themselves to their silk pads, our monarch caterpillars (five of them) pupated into lovely …

July 30, 2012

We have been raising Monarch caterpillars from eggs. (See previous posts.) I have not posted about them for ten days; …

July 20, 2012

We have four chickens, which I will introduce at a later post. But the mystery of the day surfaced when …