by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 23, 2007 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal, Literary Projects
Time ticks away. My time has been occupied with chiseling a substantially intriguing script treatment out of my wordy inventions {it is now completed. A little Dominique coop redux here and there. Planning paintings to grace the walls of the guest house in...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 11, 2007 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal
The chicks were let out for the first time at two weeks of age (we had to wait for the weather conditions to be right). Below are photos and videos of their first two outings. We have also begun construction on the new chicken coop. It is going to...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 7, 2007 | Journal
What better way to spend a dreary, cloudy day in early January than to reminisce all day long? I have no intention of wasting time, necessarily, but rather passing the depressing time of recovering from festivities and colds… {Oh, never mind…} Now that I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 26, 2006 | Journal
Christmas has come and gone once again. Year twenty o’six is nearly over. We had a splendid Christmas party with family at our Grandparents’ house on the 23rd (little cousins are growing up fast!). Grandmomma gave Rachel and I each a very pretty...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 28, 2006 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal
We have had a series of surprising events lately. Mitzi, much to the family’s astonishment, had a little tom kitten the other morning in the kennel. That was not supposed to happen. She was not supposed to have a third litter of...