The day we leave for a week at the lake could best be described as ‘hasty.” Hosting family means rising from our bed early to [first] let chickens out, clean both coops, check on and ultimately scrape chick poo, change water, food, return clean shavings to the brooder where our long legged, rather dinosaur-esque chicks…
Month: July 2026
A Death In Vermont
A week ago today at my mother’s memory-care facility home, I pushed the combination to let myself in and met my mother at her door. She was dressed and clutching her handbag in anticipation of our outing. Two weeks prior she had fallen, tap dancing, and broken her humerus so she held her purse in…