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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My menagerie



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




Native hen babies: Alive then gone



The gorgeous little native hen chicks are now both missing. I witnessed and helped protect them against hawks and one bird who was only just a little bigger than the chick. The latter swooped down on the last chick and pecked a hole in its head. The chick survived another day and night before it went missing as with the other one. Now the four meepies (my nickname for the adults) don't know what to do with themselves. They are standing around under my trampoline where I give them grain and water. They feel safe around us. I feel awful for them. They were such good parents and older siblings. Humans could learn a lot from them.

Now. Btw, all the solar lights in a bundle are awaiting repair by me. Just so you know.


All the meepies were alive and well. 



Now, miserable.

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