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I was discouraged. I was frustrated. I found myself at the end of another shift at the hospital where I all I could think about were all of the ways the healthcare system is broken. For those of you that may not know, the healthcare system IS broken and has been for a long time. I wanted to jump on my soapbox and complain to the world about all of the injustices and frustrations that I felt. I started to review my career path and point out bad decisions that led me to this overregulated, underappreciated source of overtaxed income...

As many of my readers know, we have been raising chickens for eggs, fun and education for a little while now. It only seemed logical that the next step would be to consider adding meat chickens to the mix in the future. During our journey with chickens I have learned a great deal about the care of this animal but the processing portion would be completely new. As the events of March/April 2020 have shown us, the ability to obtain processing of your animals is not always easy nor cheap. Due to the particulars of the breeds of meat chickens...

When the wait time from setting up an appointment to when a cat can actually have the procedure to prevent reproduction is three months long, nature decides to make different plans. This is how I ended up playing cat-doula for three mama-cats, yet again. Our story starts on Monday: Fluffy cat struggled with her first delivery so I suspected that the second one would not be a cake-walk. She presented herself in her labor-frenzied form in the morning. The fact that I had a to-do list almost a mile long did not change the fact that this cat was determined...

I have a different lifestyle than a lot of other people. This lifestyle did not happen overnight. I, and my family, have been making decisions over the last decade or so to get to this place. Because this transition did not happen instantaneously, I sometimes forget that not everyone lives the same way as I do. A couple of recent comments and strange looks have reminded of how foreign our ways may seem to others. While I definitely have plans for the future, I am pretty happy with where I am. Therefore, I decided to write a blog series to...

I am taking a quick break from my post series to update you on some recent happenings here on the homestead. As long-time readers will know, we obtained kittens last year. You can read about this experience in this post – https://pjsprojects.com/blogs/news/how-i-went-from-zero-to-nine-cats-in-one-night We started with nine and a few of them either ran off or didn’t make it. Two of them were so mean and human-averse that I believe that they simply ran off into the wild. You may want to watch out for these little devils if you are in the northern Kentucky area. The other two, I fear...