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.

If you'd like to contact me, please do!

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My menagerie



Reload to see another photo of one of my children. :-)




Random photos of my week :: weird, entertaining, special.



Ok, I am going to try and upload photos and captions of entertaining things going on in my life, every couple of days instead of essay style first-person posts. Hope you will enjoy.

Hmm.. That isn't a bed, my man-cat. It's a puppy toilet that I just bought for the other kitteh. See all the straw? That is an area where I'm regrowing grass where she killed the old grass. Straw keeps the moisture and warmth in, in order to promote the growth of grass and other plants.


I hope no nuts are ever chopped on my cunt(ertop).


Learning to pick bike locks. I bought this one without the code given.


Sweet 16 to Dad's golden retriever. Mum made a carrot, rolled oats and carob chocolate cake for her.


Quite a story about this, but in short: I was asked to pick up, store, sort out/throw out/burn my ex/closest friend's Uni items from 2001, from his friend's house. A girl had given him a pack of Nice biscuits with a note to him about how nice he was, because she was obviously hitting on him (I know nothing of her), and he kept the pack unopened. I packed and stored it beneath his friend's house in 2004 when we moved to Syd.


The burning of his Uni life. :( I felt so bad. But he wanted it.


Stuff on my dog.


This is my first batch of growing tomatoes -one visible. I grow lots of stuff: harvested so far, strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, lettuce - leaf and heads. I am good at it. Wtf happened to me? I have greenhouses, spend all day gardening.... I spend two hours alone carting unpotable water to my plants daily. I am.... Content with my new life.

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