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Chickens are coming to Holy Souls Hermitage!
Chickens are coming to Holy Souls Mountain! Since there are mice and squirrels and flying squirrels and rats and raccoons and other varmints in competition with chickens for chicken feed, I got a 10...
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Getting readier for the chickens!
Tacked up just a bit of chicken-wire and a door the other day… Got some straw for the nest boxes, along with 50 pounds of feed in 10 gallon bucket with a lockable lid (handy for competing critters)…...
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Benefactors, chicken wire weaving, Fall colors
There are still some trees with leaves and colors, although the leaves have pretty much fallen and the leaf lookers lurking for leaves are pretty much gone until next year. I’ll be traveling to the...
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Galvanized chicken wire gross out picture: some advice for new chicken keepers!
The chicken coop is now completely ready to go. There are roosting bars, beautiful nests, a convenient way to walk in, feed and water them and collect any eggs. Now I just need to get the chickens! I...
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Galvanized wire from hell and the naming of the chickens
All for the chickens. And the rooster. It seems that the chicken wire went in deeper than I thought. It’s like a very weak form of ebola virus or some sort of bio-chemical cousin of Brown Recluse...
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Hah!
From an email: Your posts on the jeep and the chickens brought back several funny memories. In my former life I spent 7 years in law enforcement and one day I was patrolling a stretch of highway that...
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Oh just go lay an egg, would you just?! — and a note on benefactors…
The chickens have arrived… They went right to sleep… Rather impolite of them I should think! Yesterday was a great joy to me. The benefactor providing these chickens is a staunch Catholic, great...
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Some thanksgiving beasts of Holy Souls Hermitage
I’m told that best conversion of feed to produce for any farm animal is a chicken (the worst being beef cattle). So, eat up girls! (and rooster)… This was the first egg I found. Looks like a small...
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UPDATED: As a new chicken keeper, I don’t know what to do with these...
I’ve had the chickens for about a fortnight now, and I’ve been the eggs right along. You just can’t beat rooster enhanced free-range chicken eggs. They’ve been molting. They’ve had the trauma of...
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Chicken eggs softer than snake eggs: What to do?
The situation: It’s the dead of winter. Most of the chickens are laying daily. They get laying mash, oyster shells, left over bread and lettuce, and, when I get around to it, chickweed from the...
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UPDATE: Buh-GAAAK! Chickens coughing, youth leaders writing… How to help in a...
Followers of HSH know that Steven, a once past seminarian, now a novice for the lay-Dominicans, a youth leader (see http://www.uyma.org/ ) and heart patient (heart failure) in Western Uganda, needs a...
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Some window progress at HSH
These windows, ultra inexpensive from Habitat for Humanity (and they don’t really work so well!) were much heavier than I thought, or perhaps I’m getting older. They’re not really installed yet, just...
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Vitamin D for the chickens at Holy Souls Hermitage
O.K. Some have suggested more sunshine for the ladies. So, there we are. All I did was fold the plastic sheeting back a bit. I think they’ve been getting the rays all the time, but this makes it...
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UPDATE: Midnight massacre at Holy Souls Hermitage: The rooster, killed by a...
Just now the hermitage was surrounded by wildly bellowing hound dogs, foaming at the mouth, jumping up against the plastic walls (seven feet up!), against the plastic sheet which is my door (though I...
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Of spiders and stalking at Holy Souls Hermitage. An update on the midnight...
I admit that I will certainly stalk a big spider, camera in hand, until I have it in hand. They sometimes move quickly, so it may take repeated attempts. The spider doesn’t mind. I’m pretty good with...
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Hey! Chicken fights! Ice and snow, bless the Lord!
O.K. Not the best action shot. You had to be there. This is before the ice and sleet and snow started falling. There was ice, however, little chunks on the bit of left over roofing I put down as a...
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Hmmm…. Anyone know anything about Barred Rock roosters? Can you put them in...
I just may… may… be getting a Barred Rock rooster to be joining the ladies, who I think by now are over mourning for the rooster who gave his life in defending them from the intruding transmittered...
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Handsome little rooster! The ladies will be happy to have him around! (Plus a...
Shrove Tuesday, a day on which to be shriven, was a great day for this hermit: Mass, confession, and so much more. Our Lord is very good and very kind. Ancient of days, “T.K.”, beloved volunteer at...
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Some unexpected scenes at the hermitage
I didn’t expect these flowers, but they were donated the other day specifically for the altar. Very wonderful. Thank you for that! I had left the plastic sheet door drawn open for a change of air, and...
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But you would not! Dominus Flevit. A rant on exorcism: the goodness and...
The neighbor’s chickens’ eggs hatched. These are only a day old: Actually, these are not from the eggs of his fighting chickens (inherited from another neighbor), but from calmer laying hens. Yet,...
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of roosters and lady slippers
Standing guard while the ladies forage in the forest… Meanwhile, the ladyslippers are coming up thick as grass in honor of the Immaculate Conception… Filed under: Chickens, faunae, florae Tagged:...
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camo / on the march
Can you spot the barred rock camo rooster? And then, there’s this: Lady slippers on the march in honor of our Lady. Filed under: Chickens, faunae, florae Tagged: Chickens, Faunae, florae
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Of benefactors, cameras, prayers, chickens and roosters
As you know, I like sharing with you the glories of our good Lord’s creation. Pictures are handy. One of the benefactors of Holy Souls Hermitage sent in a camera. I’ve been using that, and think of...
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UPDATE: Killer-snake! Killer-snake-eating ninja chicken! Killer vines! (update)
Philip warned me never to pick up a baby copperhead, since they don’t know how to let go, and so inject all the venom they have. I couldn’t resist. Unlike last year, I thought I might see what the...
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Chickens at the beach. Trilliums by the trilliums. A fern. Ireland gone to...
Even if this is a rain-forest in the registry of world rain-forests, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a bit of sun now and again. It is up in the mountains, but that doesn’t mean one can’t pretend...
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Chickens in need of TEOTWAWKI exorcism, and a note on the SCOTUS and Obamacare
I think I’ve just seen an image of what a food scare following a TEOTWAWKI event would look like. I air-dropped ONE salamander into six chickens and a rooster. They looked on in amazement for two...
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Pentecost evening florae for the Immaculate Conception
Think about it. Our Blessed Mother was already Spouse of the Holy Spirit and the Mother of God. To receive even more of the firey love of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, after a whole lifetime with...
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BUGGY SOLUTION TO FR Z’s TEOTWAWKI (Don’t be chicken!)
It’s been raining and raining and raining at Holy Souls Mountain. You would almost think it was TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It). It doesn’t matter if you live in a lush rain forest or a...
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Benefactors, Masses, Jenny the Jeep, Chickens (sad) and great progress on the...
Thanks for directing Mass intentions my way, against all my protestations… Wednesday, 3 October, 2012, Holy Mass is offered for Monsignor J.S., at the request of T.B. Thursday, 4 October through 2...
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Why did the chicken cross the road? HSH is looking for non-debeaked pullets…
From an email. Hah hah hah! Update: I didn’t realize the graphic didn’t publish. That’s my internet situation right now… So, here’s another try: Great timing, as I thought that this is what my chickens...
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Trip three with Jenny the Jeep (a bit of respite!)
This time, there were smaller, though longer logs chained to the front. There wasn’t so much next to the driver’s seat either: Nor was the back stacked to the top: Sometimes the wood of the cross is...
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Benefactors, Jenny, wood, chickens and rooster, fall colors, laudie…
A bunch more trips up the mountain have been made with Jenny the Jeep carrying her burden of wood in service of the hermitage. She didn’t mind the few flakes of snow flying about throughout the day...
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Road danger, post-Mass picture with the neighbors, and chicken frustration...
Hmm… Looks like a Mack Truck (lots of those around here) sacrificed his front alignment, smashing into the mountain side of Holy Souls Mountain one lane gravel road. This seems to have saved an...
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Department of Homeland Security? Here? Why? Some hawkishness at Holy Souls...
This guy has been making his presence known for quite a while now, ever since hurricane Sandy if I remember correctly. It seems that his job is to get people to notice that he’s around. Well, O.K....
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Lost chicken back, but Laudie has disappeared, until… (and some thoughts on...
The head hen that was chased off by the rooster was back again after having gone missing for some 30 hours. I was hoping she would come back. A neighbor said that there was a terrible chicken battle...
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Chicken benefactors (blech! edition) and other matters of great, shall we...
F.C. in Payette, Idaho, sent in some Chunky Chicken Caviar! (blech!) @ 3/4 pounds each bag. The first thing to note: **NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. I am reminded of the boxes I am told arrive in the...
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Benefactors: Mass, Laudie, Chickens (worms edition)
Against all my tantrum like protestations, N. and J. W. sent in Vol. 2 of Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI, which I had on my Amazon Wishlist just as a reminder to myself. J is the big sister of...
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Rocky the Rooster threatens Laudie-Dog, who, instead…
Rocky the Rooster, in an effort to protect the hens from the ferocious Laudie-Dog (who wouldn’t hurt a fly), stands guard half way up the steps of the hermitage, cornering Laudie up against the...
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Hen pecked rooster and Laudie-dog traumatic nightmares
You have to have a pretty sharp eye, but there are actually three hens attacking the rooster, who, in desperation, has tried to dig himself right into the ground. This is most annoying, since he does...
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JESUS AFLAME! (Meanwhile: Chickens ham it up – Laudie sharpens her weapons –...
The newly lit sanctuary candle has been moved into its lamp. I have to wait a day or so to do that as the flame is otherwise too ferocious. Meanwhile, the living flame of love which is always issuing...
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Lenten snowfall ad orientem (the rooster investigates)
The very quiet scene beyond the ad orientem altar early this Lenten morning. The fresh snow really has great acoustical effects, dampening smaller sounds, which sharpens louder sounds. Perhaps we can...
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Thanks to benefactors! Laudie and the rooster, and some ferocious meanwhiles
Thanks go to… anonymous! … for the First Aid Kit, you know, should I get a bit carried away with the chainsaw while a tree is falling on me. Yikes! Thanks go to… anonymous! … for the first aid book...
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