Echobaby

Sorry to be all about the weather but its been a glorious couple of days in Seattle.  At this time of year we are usually under a blanket of...

Halloween is a favorite holiday for the kids and it was the first "trick or treating" that Wren has participated in as anything mo...

Yesterday was one of those days of bright brilliant blue made more sudden because the sun is already getting low on the horizon.  Its not fu...

Since the raccoon attacks Wren has become very anxious around the house.  Heather noticed it first, yesterday, when he was afraid to be alon...

Mum has returned to Australia and the cold wet weather continues.  We have the orange porch light up for Halloween and a healthy spread of s...

I can't even believe I am writing this but New Chicken has been killed.   I returned home from dropping Mum at the airport and was sitti...

Most days, Wren and I are alone during the day and so we have only each other to talk to.  Now that Mum is here I realize that Wren talks, a...

At 4.35am I was woken by loud thudding noises in the kitchen.  While half asleep I thought that Joshua was throwing away a lot of garbage. ...

At dusk, the raccoon family returned to try and eat our last chicken, Ruby. Joshua ran out waving a shovel and nearly hit one.   He mainta...

This morning, after googling "how deep bury chicken," we had a brief but poignant funeral for our chickens Sylvia and Chippy, kill...