Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Thelma and Louise's New Home



Katie and Michael's farm is beautiful.  They have a wonderful strong well-built barn with a green tin roof.  Their home is a large farmstead. They have a kitchen building which is Katie's office.  And a garage.  They have an outbuilding which could serve as a very large run-in shed.  And they have, among other smaller buildings, their hen house.  Here is Thelma and Louise's new home -- their own hen house with white fence.  Inside this well-equipped home are little nesting boxes stacked on each other, so the girls can either nest on the ground or in a higher rise.  They can have actual roosts.  Or they can even fly up to a variety of second floor barn type levels, if they want to be in the rafters.  It's a wonderful space.  And they will have about 20-25 hen friends and a beautiful rooster.  Outside of this hen house are many bushes and large bushy pine trees and at least two separate garden yard spaces with trees.  My girls ended up liking the pine trees plenty well.  

And here is Katie herself -- a woman I admire.  She's a brilliant scholar but also wants to be the change she wants to see in the world.  So, she is busy planting guilds of fruit trees around her property, and growing a wide selection of herbs, berries, and vegetables.  This year, she expects to share a Farmers Market stall with a friend and sell her produce.  It's just the perfect place for my girls.  They get to live with educated kindhearted hardworking people who care about environmental sustainability and animal companions.  It's amazing!!!