Hi there, I'm Ashe.
Ashe de la June


After many years in IT tech support and web dev, I unexpectedly ventured onto a new path. Now I'm in my thirties and have a double degree in Earth Sciences! I am raising fowl, a goat, a horse, four cats and a husband. I spend my free time in the garden and with my animals. Currently, my long-suffering husband and I sleep with one of our cats in the bedroom with a young pullet in a cat cage on a shelf who refuses to sleep with the other chickens! It strangely works out. My husband is an aspiring author writer and often blogs a story about our lives on the farm etc.

I am passionate about chickens, cats, web design, blogging, Pinterest, sprouting seeds, taking cuttings and other gardening, trialling make-up and hair products, baking, writing stories, spinal disabilities, making things and offering all kinds of advice to people.

Being one who loves to read, TaintedBlood.org is an old URL I purchased in 2002, inspired by the Margaret Weis science fiction fantasy Star of Guardians series of novels. Jazhiaran and Ashe are the names of rpg characters I created in the 90s inspired by the Raymond E. Feist fantasy novels following Pug the magician.

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Yes. I have a bad temper when I'm frustrated of course I do. If I spend a lot of money on something, all can go to Hell if it doesn't work. If I've got a security door whose deadbolt jams every time it rains, disallowing me from locking it, of course I'm going to kick it and swear at it, or just growl at it in a high pitched scream voice. Because I'm sick of it.
Two days ago I almost lost the love of my life because of that door. Then tonight I discovered WHY my cat got out and went bush was because when the latch gets wet and cold, it won't lock, also having the effect of the normal closing latch not clicking into its groove. Therefore, opening the door is as simple as using one of your pinkie fingers to push it gently open. Considering the door is 'cheap' at $160, which IMO is expensive, you expect the door to actually function in all weathers. It is fully metal!! It should not freeze, shrink or expand in cold weather. No part of it is anything but steel. I now have to buy a separate latch for it just to feel safe. Also, I almost missed my exam yesterday as I couldn't get the thing to lock as I stood outside in the soaking rain. WTF. First I almost lose my beloved animal (who is neither an outside cat, street smart nor bush smart), then the next day the docking lock makes me almost miss my exam. I don't mind so much it not working when I am here, because I have weapons in my place. But when I'm gone I want the thing to work. No, I want it to work like it should in ducking rain or shine, when I'm here or out.

So, yes. I get mad. Really, really MAD at inanimate objects making me mad bear the brunt at those times. I have never thrown plates, but I have kicked, punched and bashed walls, doors, gates. Man made shit. Glass windows, my steering wheel. I don't feel pain much when I'm angry. Whoops.

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