My Blog

I was going to combine the two posts today, but thought for categorization purposes, I should separate them, so here's my Chicken anecdote:

We started raising chickens in our backyard earlier this year. We built a hen house for them out of scrap wood we got for free on Craigslist and Freecycle. It took a long time to build. We started the hen house last summer, worked on it through the winter and finally finished it and got it into our backyard in May or June of this year. Last June, we attended a class to learn a little bit about keeping chickens and decided it would be fun and nice to get fresh eggs! We don't have eggs yet, but the hens are fun. We read online that we'd get eggs as early as when the hens were 5 months old, but then a friend told us her hens didn't start laying until they were a year old, so we're waiting to see when we get eggs. Our oldest hen is 24 weeks old.

Today I'm going to expound on my website's name.

Several years ago, I started Dontbflat.com as a music website. It had music history info such as a time line and information about composers and music eras. It also had a teacher/student section with quizzes on composers and music eras. I had a friend who taught music try it out, but no one else has used it. Anyway, it's been a few years and I couldn't bring myself to close down the website (I love the name: dontbflat), but I didn't want to keep paying for it if I wasn't going to be updating my website, so I decided to completely change it and now it's my blog. I'm sorry to anyone who did a Google search and linked to my website looking for music info, but if you write a comment, I may be able to help you find what you need.

Smile often, keep a song in your heart, and be happy with who you are.

I just couldn’t wait to get my next entry in, so here goes. I’m not planning on giving you a list of my favorite and least favorite things. I figure if you are interested in me you will read the blog and anyone who wants a quick summary about me is out of luck. It doesn’t work that way in real life (at least it didn’t use to work that way) and it won’t work that way here. If you want to get to know someone, it takes time and effort--a commitment of time and energy. If you are willing to commit the time and energy to read my blog then you will get to know me eventually.

    Hi! My name is Willa Leigh. (I know it’s a bit cliché to start my blog that way, but who cares?) I don’t know if anyone will even read this, but since it’s the age of technology and everyone and their brother has their opinion out there, I’m joining the cacophony. If you don’t like what you read, feel free to go find someone else’s blog to read, I won’t be offended. I’m going to try to write with minimal editing. I will fix spelling and some grammar, but mostly I just want to write what I think without worrying about whether it will offend someone or not (Unlike the media, who seems so afraid they might offend someone …(excuse me a minute, my chick is crying and I need to see if she’s ok…Yup, she’s fine, she just wanted some company.) Anyway, the media is so afraid they might offend someone, that they mostly just say inoffensive things that everyone can agree with.) Oh, I had to catch myself. I was just about to delete that part about the media, but as I’m trying to speak my mind without editing, I will leave it in.