Pip's Project... 52? Thread!

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I don't know how much snow we have, but there's over 3" of sleet and counting.

Yuck, yuck, yuck. I'll take dry snow over sleet any day. I definitely don't envy your weather!

 

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Week 5 of 2026 for me!

Sunset over the woods the other evening was actually painting the snow in pastels. It was so beautiful

Another cross-post from a different thread, but I had to share this beautiful close-up I got of Casper this week

The moon (and one star) through some tree branches a few evenings ago

I finally got my typodont stand this week, so... Here is Rocky, all set up and ready for his cleaning

This morning, our temp was recorded at about 6 degrees below what was predicted overnight, -7° F instead of the predicted -1° F. The trees had all accumulated frost on their branches, which I thought caught the morning sunlight rather spectacularly.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Love casper's eyes against the grey face.

 

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Week 6 has been very busy for me (and to top it off I'm coming down with some sort of respiratory thing ), so I don't have much to share this week.

Here's a cross-post from another thread of some of the lovely eggs my youngsters have been providing for me and my family

Another cross-post of Casper being a total goober

And one last one of Rocky helping me practice my mirror fulcrum placements.

 

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The respiratory thing mentioned in my last post made this week pretty tough, but we survived week 7 to tell the tale. Not many pictures to speak of for it, though

Cross-posted from my flock thread, a somewhat promising young Cochin pullet from my breeding program... Wings are a little low (could be from her relaxing, though!) and that beak could be curved better, but she's shaping up okay

I suppose I could cross-post from Casper's thread as well since he's featured in one way or another every week so far... Here's him in a box that was not intended for him, but it's too late, it's his box now.

And some indirect vision dexterity practice for school. Very serious business, this is.

 

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Week 8, I'm short on time so here's just a couple pictures.

Cross post from my flock thread, this is Fifi yakking at me the other day

Goodness, I don't know, here's a picture of my supper tonight, I guess. Chicken, broccoli, and penne pasta in a lemon alfredo sauce. If you have never tried lemon alfredo, I highly recommend it as a favorite of mine. That punch of acid really takes alfredo to a whole new level

 

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Week 9 already?? Well...

A cross-post from Casper's thread, but I love when he sleeps with his 'arms' crossed like this Too stinkin' adorable!

Cross-post from my flock thread; Inara, Georgia, and Margot dust bathing

This morning, it was freezing cold again and snowing a little. I had gotten feed yesterday and forgotten to unload it from the car, so I had to stop what I was doing in the middle of topping off waterers and move the feed to the feed shed. When I returned to the spigot to keep hauling water around to pens, I noticed that the inside of the water bucket had frozen in a neat, lacy pattern in the cold:

I also tried to get a close-up picture of some snowflakes on a feed bag this morning, but it didn't turn out as close as I'd hoped.

 

[Crazy Maizie]

Cool! I always notice things like frost designs and such. But then I'm never carrying my phone with me.

 

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I usually have forgotten mine in the house whenever neat things like that happen, so that was out of pure chance I got that shot!

 

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Week 10! I took a lot of pictures in the last 3 days or so with the lovely spring-like weather we've been having!

Cross-post from my flock thread, a crazy Easter-egger pullet named Flint who somehow found herself on the wrong side of the net over the chicken yard

There had been a bird flitting away from our front porch every morning when I'd gone out through the front door in the dark of the early morning to get the chickens fed before classes. I finally noticed the little squirt all the way up on a dead wasp nest in the corner one evening. Terrible shot because I had to zoom in pretty far to get the picture, but it's a Carolina Wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, and likely the one we've been hearing singing his heart out around the house for the past several weeks. Such a loudmouth for such a tiny bird!

Cross-post from Casper's thread of him being a total goober lying in my niece's blanket that she left on the couch unattended.

It was beautiful on Friday and the birds had their first free-range of the year because of it. Here's another cross-post from my flock thread of Birch, my mixed-flock head rooster, feeling extra manly as he supervised the girls and pumping himself up with a wing flap

This one is also a cross-post from my flock thread, but I wanted it in this weekly journal as well. We also had our first, 'full dozen eggs in a single day,' for the year yesterday

Last picture, on a walk in the woods I came across a patch of leaf litter and rotting wood where some snails had begun to come out in the warmth. I wish I could tell you confidently what their species was, but I didn't take detailed measurements or pictures from other angles to be able to identify them with confidence and, as it turns out, there are a lot of very similar snail species in Indiana. Anyway, here's one of the buggers on the base of a sapling.