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Our newly-built chicken house has been christened with its first eggs!!

Okay, okay, they’re not chicken eggs.

We have a bird’s nest in one of the nesting boxes in our chicken house. I was careful not to touch the nest at all as I admired it.

Anyone read the children’s book Are You My Mother? I can see these little baby birds hatching out, tumbling out of the nesting box, and wandering around the chicken house saying, “Are you my mother? Are you my mother?” to every chicken.
Until one says, “Yes, I am. Come here, my pretty.”

“Now you die.”
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"It was a cold wintry day when I brought my children to live in rural West Virginia. The farmhouse was one hundred years old, there was already snow on the ground, and the heat was sparse-—as was the insulation. The floors weren’t even, either. My then-twelve-year-old son walked in the door and said, “You’ve brought us to this slanted little house to die." Keep reading our story....
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