summer and awl

Summer is crazy busy and without quick internet service, my blogging is at a minimum, but chicks are growing and the gardens are too!!! While I am at a faster computer I would like to drop a quick image of an carved antler handled awl I just made.  With all of my moccasin making recently, I thought I should have a nicer awl handle.  While taking my WI history kids on a field trip this spring I saw an awesome Ojibwe awl with...

Chicks

Out of the 20 eggs we hoped to hatch out that appear to be developing, only 9 hatched out. One that hatched had some leg issues and is now dead, leaving 8 healthy little chicks. Here is the break down with some assumptions on the problems based on “autopsies” done of the unhatched eggs. All but one of the black hen’s eggs hatched out. The one that didn’t was an undeveloped mush. I think this hen was a...