The November - January issue of Organic Gardening Magazine has an article about creating your own lighted herb bookcase. As I was reading the article, I remembered that when Aaron and I moved into our house, Aaron's mother gave us a bookcase her husband had made for her. It has a fluorescent light fixture built-in to the bookcase and is an attractive feature in our living room. Half-way through the article I looked up at the bookcase and realized that this perfect space for my herbs is currently being dominated by a stack of Aaron's notebooks from college. Since I'm a smart individual, I think I'll find a new location for those notebooks and replant some herbs! I had sown mine outdoors, but they died off weeks ago when the heavy snow came in.

This particular issue also highlighted keeping chickens in your backyard, which is a concept that was first brought to my attention by the Garden Girl, Patti Moreno. While my father raised chickens (and pigeons I believed), I've had no experience with keeping animals other than the family dog in my backyard. I'm still contemplating beginning this experience, but I'm also paranoid that I'll receive complaints from my neighbors. I definitely need to do more research and perhaps read some books.

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