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The General is dead

November 21st 2007

It occurred to me yesterday that you never really know how big something is until you have to bury it. This is especially true here in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains where the soil is first sandy and rocky, and then heavy, stony, and red with clay.
Digging a grave is hard work. My arms [...]

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No jazz hands

June 22nd 2007

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I threw together this little video from some snippets I shot the other day with my camera. It’s not the best quality video, but I’ve been promising goat movies for a while and I thought the new kids were a perfect opportunity. Hope you enjoy! If you’re having trouble getting the video to play, here’s [...]

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One less mouth to feed

June 19th 2007

Last Friday night we lost a chicken. Any loss of life is tragic, but our chickens have lived good, long lives for chickens; we haven’t lost a single one of the original chickens we bought a few years ago to disease or any sort of reason relating to their care. We’re good husbands. However, this [...]

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