Monthly Archives: November 2006

Chick Housing and Indoor Air

Perhaps your mother has never told you, so let me tell you in case you did not know: raising chicks in your house creates very bad indoor air. My poor husband Sander has an office next to the porch room where the chicks were living and he has lung problems. It’s a bad combination. Researchers…

Jail Break

Perhaps our craftsman home designed by architect Irving Gill was not meant to be a chicken coop.

Dear Michael Moore

In early 2006, Michael Moore put out a call for stories about the health care industry for his documentary Sicko. While I didn’t have a specular story (thank goodness), the email hit me at the right time and it inspired an email campaign to Michael Moore. I’m sure that wine was involved (not the best…

Your days are numbered, buddy

Stay out of the garden. Stay off of the porch. If you can’t find another home, you will soon be dinner. You are a depression buster food, after all.

Keeping the chicks warm

Our new chicks have first-class accommodations here at Hilltop House. Chicks are very sensitive to cold and nature intended them to stay with their mothers who would transfer her body heat to them. When you buy a passel of chicks in early November in particular, you could have a rather long time of babying them…

New Chicks

We live on about five acres on the southern edge of the Sequoia National Forest. We make up for in land what we lack in convenience. We are an hour from any major supermarket and so we need to have our meals planned. We rely on foods available in our freezer and on our property….