Dave Hunter

I’ve been riding on and off for the better part of 25 years which makes me a decidedly mediocre rider. I don’t fall neatly into a category of motorcyclist. Nerd biker? Is that a thing?

Today I took apart a crib. It’s not a noteworthy event unless you have some context; perhaps not even then. Our son has graduated to his “big boy” bed. We had a period of overlap where both the crib and his bed were in his room, and he could have the choice of sleeping in either one. With some urging, the new bed is now the preferred one, so it makes little sense to have both in his room.

We moved to New England. About a year and a half ago, we toyed with the idea of moving out here when I read a news article about the state of Vermont offering remote workers to bring their jobs in-state for $10,000. We visited Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont in November of 2018 and decided we didn’t hate it.

We were using a traditional gravity waterer to water our chickens. Unfortunately, chickens don’t really adhere to standards of hygiene that we’d like them to. The watering tray would be filled with feathers, straw, dirt and poop after a day of drinking and scratching in the run. The other downside was that it was providing water for the neighborhood rats. We also tried an automatic waterer that uses a float, but we still had the same problems with pollution and access, and the float would jam.

I originally wrote this on Facebook. Amelia was born on August 3, 2012 at 11:33am at Kaiser Oakland. She was premature at 27 weeks. We were scared that she wouldn’t be alive, but she came out red, wriggly, and squawking – a perfect little person but just very, very tiny at 2 lbs 1 oz.