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Before and After Mania- Pictures

Category: Apocalypse Gardening | Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:19 pm

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Holy Mackerel!
So, I ended up with two chickens instead of one. Here's the baby photos of Jeri Lee and Howlin' Wolf:



Jeri Lee Lewis Vexx ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )









Howlin' and Jeri- about 3 days old ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )






Howlin' was once camera shy ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



Here's how they're lookin' now:



Howlin' at 3 months ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )






Jeri Lee at 3 months ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



The yards were once unsuspecting and docile:




Apocalypse West: Before ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )






Apocalypse East: Before ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



And now they've surrendered themselves to ABSOLUTE VEGETABLE MADNESS!



Apocalypse West- August 09 ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )






Robbie of the corn ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )






Front View August 09 ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



Chicken Coop Construction:



Robbie the Builder ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



Wrappin' it up:


( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )

And just for kicks:







Chicken Love ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )



This very belated update has been brought to you by:




BEWARE!!! ( photo / image / picture from lexxivexx's Garden )





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Breakin' The Law!

Category: Apocalypse Gardening | Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:20 am

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Bandit Chicken!

That's right, I started building a coop today. My friend, Taryn, managed the whole operation since she grew up on a farm and actually knows chicken things.

It is in no way legal to have "farm animals" here, but I'm not particularly concerned. The family across the street has at least 3 hens AND a rooster. Not only that, but their birds are visible from the street. You'd have to walk through Porter's yard and hop up on his fence to see mine, and I don't take kindly to that sort of behavior.

Funny thing is, I can't even eat eggs. Well, maybe it will be different with organic ones instead of store bought. Either way, the manure and eggshells are what excites me and, above all, my love for any animal companion.

I dropped the bomb on Robbie when I got home from the motorcycle trip to Laughlin, NV. It went something like: "I'm getting a chicken and there's nothing you can do to stop me. I'm going to name her Jeri Lee Lewis."
After a year of him denying my poultry desires, that was all it took.
Then Neighbor Porter chimed in with little kid excitement.
"Can Bones raise the chicken?! He would love that sooo much! He'd hatch the egg if you let him!"
Bones, his 1/2 Pit bull mutt, has this thing for mothering. He's been known for trying to raise ducklings, nurse kittens and cuddle rats.
"Of course he can raise the chicken, if she likes him. And he HAS TO wait until she'd old enough to be handled... you know the dog can't hatch the egg right?"
"I know... but it would be cute"



CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN!



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BOOM Part II: The Big Tease

Category: Apocalypse Gardening | Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:42 pm

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So I took some "before" pictures, but due our new internet and an aging computer, the Husband had to... well I don't know what to call it, but delete and reload everything. Somehow we lost the photo upload program.

If he is not freakishly overburdened at work, I'll have him work some magic before I head out to Nevada on Monday.

I took the pictures for a lark, to show you all how ugly it really is. Upon doing so, I tiptoed over to get a shot of the previously mentioned shopping cart, fearing that the old man might be hiding in a tree. Waiting.

As a rounded the corner with my camera ready I Saw It ...





A N O T H E R S H O P P I N G C A R T!?!?!



He's been upping the ante. Gearing up on old shopping carts like it was going out of fashion. What could this mean? What is his plan of action? Where will it take us? Things that I can only wonder about on sleepless nights, perched at my window. Waiting for the unmistakable sound of creaky bearings on the approach.

In other news;
I purchased my Miniature Apple Tree; a freak result or root grafting and Mad Science. It had been on hold for a week at the local Ace Hardware, where a family friend, Miss Judy, is the Home & Garden Buyer/Overlord. Apparently the tree will grow in a container permanently and produces about 50 apples a year once it's mature. This year I'll have about 7, if every bud blooms and is pollinated.

Miss Judy is fast becoming my garden mentor, being a certified Master Gardener herself. After my ecstatic purchase, we visited her house to borrow the Rototiller.

AND since Neighbor Porter works at a winery as a delivery person, he has access to either free or deep-discount halved wine barrels. In fact, he is supposed to find out today What The Score Is. My only request was; "As much as we could get our hands on immediately."

Over and Out.

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