Monday, May 16, 2011

Home to Roost

I'm starting a new venture.  If you've read my profile you know that I like to learn new things.  I know nothing about raising chickens nor have I had a blog. First a little background....

Two and a half years ago my husband lost his job.  About six months after that I found a lump in my breast.  A year of surgeries, chemo, radiation then losing my job and I was ready for a change. During that long time of contemplation about life I'd begun to notice quite a bit about the DIY movement that was cropping up into every aspect of American life.  Whether due to our pioneering spirit and/or the sorry state of our economy, people living in urban environments were turning their landscaping into self-sustaining gardens and taking on small manageable livestock for food.   A job opened up out west where I grew up in Nevada and I decided to take it.  Not an easy decision since half my family is still back in Illinois.  But here I am with an income better than unemployment, temporarily living in my parent's basement and looking for ways to stretch our rapidily declining American dollar.  

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