Archive for April, 2009

April 23rd, 2009

Chicken Petition — Sign it!

hen house life

There is currently a petition online in support of the movement in Iowa City to allow urban chicken keeping. If you’re from this area and support this cause, please sign the petition to show your support and help us out. Change is on the horizon!

April 14th, 2009

Big changes don’t have to take very long

In fact, we were able to accomplish this much in just a few short hours this evening. I stayed home sick today with some variation of the Martian Death Flu, but I was feeling well enough by the time Kevin got home from work that I was able to help a little out front. Here’s what we (mostly Kevin) did:

In progress

In progress

Wielding

In progress

No more bushes

B&A1

Before and after

B&A2

Glorious progress

You can see the rest of the set of pictures here.

April 11th, 2009

Yard/exterior, before

To give you an idea of what we’re working with, here’s a collection of photos of the yard and exterior of the house. If you want to see the whole set, click here.

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Back 10

Back 9

Back 3

Back 2