So I was doing some profile-cleaning...

[ilyena_sylph]

And I discovered that I had subscribed to this community but never followed the rules. I know the comm hasn't been updated in a good little while, but... still worth doing, yeah?

I'm Ilyena_Sylph, or Yena.

I tend to be interested in books, chickens (ask me about our flock), cooking, gardens, farming and animal agriculture, home improvement, making things better, preserving food, sewing, sustainability, writing, and probably more than I can think of.

I believe in keeping my eyes and ears open, and I'd like to see more happening in this place.

I'm not sure I can share a whole lot. I mean, I live in the Midwest, so I know floods and tornadoes and droughts, but we've mostly been amazing fortunate.

My favorite writer on the disaster-prep front is Cody Lundin, of 98.6: the art of keeping your ass alive and When All Hell Breaks Loose, mostly because he's funny, smart, quirky, and determined to give you the best ideas he has. Also, he believes in helping your community, unlike several other writers I've poked at.

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[brighidn]

Howdy! How are your chickens doing? What kind?
What sorts of things do you can?

[ilyena_sylph]

Hey there!

We had three chickens, lost one this spring -- we don't know why -- and the other two, well, one of them went blind in one eye, and the other lost a couple of toes, but they still lay all the time, even in the winter.

They're a crossbreed called Red Stars, we got them at Chick Days at Tractor Supply Co three years ago.

Up at mom's, we can tomato juice, whole tomatoes, green beans, wax beans, pickles, and an assortment of jellies, and here at our place, we tend to mostly make assorted preserves, put up some green beans... and we can a lot of soups, mostly because I cook way too much. +wry+

I haven't done a lot this year, we've... kinda had a lot going on, but I want to get back to it.