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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Things I own and use, that for a female is probably weird.



  • Jackhammer.  
  • Longbow recurve 35lb and 60lb, arrows I often feather and tip myself and hunting tip arrow heads, and target arrow heads.  
  • Quality 18V cordless drill.
  • Whipper snipper.  
  • Manual lawn "mower".    
  • Karcher pressure washer.  
  • Construction hard hat.  
  • Steel tipped boots.  
  • Shovel etc. 
  • Soldering iron, soldering stand and other accessories.  
  • Solar fence energiser (electric fence).  
  • Heavy duty staple gun.
  • Rigid "tinny sized" boat.    
  • Locked garden shed.  :-P  
  • Hunting spotlight.  
  • Spare timber and poly sheeting.  
  • Always with me: large bottle of auto oil, new wiper blades, bungee straps, tension tape, car jack, jump start cables, battery solar trickle charger, 10L of water and food for emergencies, 2 person tent, one person blow up mattress, adult cot, fuel/liquid jiggle transfer tube, torch, walkie talkies, band-aids, tarps, spanners, ratchet tools, screw drivers, and other items I can't remember right now.     
  • Auto putty, auto spray paint and other auto touch-up accessories.  
  • Two motorcycles, one a road-trail, which I no longer ride - had a bad accident I've not recovered from in almost six years.  
  • Surfboard and body boards.  
  • Scuba gear.
  • Dart board.
  • Pull up bar.  
  • Trampoline.  
  • Blower-vac and oscillating multi-tool.  
  • Hopefully a garden water tank soon, too.  
I'm sure I have other stuff I can't think of right now.  I own a lot of stuff that gets used often.  

<b>Am I alone in my weird but necessary purchases?</b>  What do people own that most people wouldn't think you'd need, as either a male or female?

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posted by Da at 12:52:00 AM

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