Hearth & Heart

I am very fortunate to know Sage Adderley of Sweet Candy Distro.  I met her a couple of years ago and to my delight, we have become friends.

Until I met Sage, I had never heard of zines.  But her passion for them is contagious and now I have embarked on creating my first zine.

Hearth & Heart is a quarterly zine which features short stories (of magical realism?).  What is Magical Realism? I just call it life.  I can't help it if it reads like fiction.  --I hope to have copies ready to sell before the week is out.

I have been taking a squint at my blog, (I had to blow the dust off it first) and I realized I hadn't been posting much since Penny died.   Just life happening.  It was Sage who reminded me not to neglect my blog.

So here's an update about the hens.  When the hawk took my Penny, I was determined that would not happen again.  My friends down the road who have chickens gave me a rooster, and he is turning out to be a good protector.  In fact at times he engages in protecting the flock from me, which is always an adrenaline rush.  It's really my boots that he hates apparently.  So we have to work around that.

Chicken drama!  Who knew?

Here's 3/4 of my flock.  Rocky (the barred rock rooster) is in the foreground.  I'm wondering if he will ever stop growing.  He's about twice as big as the girls now.  I fully expect to wind up with a six foot rooster.  Barredzilla!

Working on the zine now.  Will post update when it becomes available.