http://www.dingoroo.com From Brooklyn to the Mountains Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently enjoyed a delicious salad made mostly of "weeds": Ingredients: Young dandelion leaves (feral) Dead nettle tops with their purple flowers (feral) Ox-eye daisy greens (feral) Chives (just starting to come back up from last year's planting) Turkale* sprouts (planted a few weeks ago in a cold frame) Teri whipped up a lemon-garlic-olive oil dressing that ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2010/03/free-salad/ Apologies for yet another long silence - Peter brought a lovely flu-like virus home with him from his visit to New York over New Year's, and it lived with us for almost the entire month of January. It's hard to believe that February is now almost over - seems like ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2010/02/news-from-chickenville/ What if we stand the notion of ownership on its head? What if I do not own the barn, but instead it owns me, or better, we own each other? What if I do not view it as my right to kill mice simply because I can, and because a ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/12/inspiration/ (Click images to see larger) Can you find the goat in this one? Here she is: These are not goats: Lulu and Zoe: Nikabrik: http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/12/cute-pictures-of-goats/ Before Teri and I started blogging about our trip, I kept a blog about the process of turning our VW passenger van into a camper. Since the "Let's Go" has been and still is such an important part of our lives, I've resurrected those posts. They can be ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/12/old-vanagon-posts-restored/ Several days ago, Teri and I heard a ruckus from the field where our chickens roam. After a few seasons with poultry, you learn to distinguish mundane squabbles and triumphant "I laid an egg" squawks from their air-raid siren cacophony - and this was definitely the latter. We looked over, ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/11/on-not-meddling-with-nature/ "Oooh, where are we going?" "Oh. I'll get you for this." http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/10/how-to-take-your-goat-to-the-vet/ http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/10/a-woman-and-her-chicken/ 1 dog 1 cat 7 goats 12 chickens 11 chickens 10 chickens Something has been picking off our 8-week-old chicks. The first to go was the only girl in this batch -- she disappeared on Monday. We heard a commotion -- the ladies tend to make a commotion after laying an egg, so at ... http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/10/tally/ http://www.dingoroo.com/2009/10/back-in-action/