First, the weather report. We’ve gone from winter to summer. After a long cool spring that had near-freezing overnight temps into the third week in May, I expect I will be complaining about the heat any day now. Probably today. The car thinks we hit 91 degrees today. Naturally I expect the authorities to issue…

Or something like that. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve graced you with tales from Laporte, enough that this segment might as well be dubbed ‘This Time-of-Who-Really-Keeps-Track in Laporte’. This week, we dusted off our boots for some frolicking in nature – because who needs indoor heating when you can embrace the frostbite? We…

To channel the Bee Gees, last week was all about ‘Stayin’ Alive’—a theme song for anyone trying to keep chickens intact while Mom and Dave were off channeling their inner Tour de France in the Black Hills. Alec and I were left as the guardians of the Great Chicken Empire: five feathered citizens living on…