David Joel Stevenson's Blog

It has been a while, y’all.  I just dusted this blog off and found that I have a few unpublished posts, so…  Maybe I’ll get back into it?  But let’s start off with something everybody is already aware of:

I know I’m crazy.

If you know me, you probably put me on the same shelf as the guys with tinfoil hats who are locked in winnebagos listening for signs of intelligent life through static from the stars.  (I mean the literal cosmic stars, not the static heard from the reality show kind.  We know ...

Dang, y’all. My last post was from January 7th – over ten months ago… Since you’ve all been nervously anticipating thisentry for so long, I’m sure your expectations have beengrowing with each passing day. “He must be crafting a masterpiece of a blog post since he’s taking so long! It’s going to be amazing!” Let’s […]

This post is a looong time coming. So long that I’m trying to piece together my pictures to remember what happened. Lastfall (2014), I gathered some acorns and pretty much just wasted a bunch of time. All of them turned out to be garbage, with worms laughing in my face. But, I’m stubborn, so I […]

I love raccoons. I grew up in the country, and just like every other average American kid I had my share of pets. There weredogs, cats, fish, hamsters, squirrels,a leopard gecko named Yoda, and more dogs and cats. Oh, yeah, and raccoons. Don’t all kids have raccoons? They’re absolutely awesome, so all kids should have […]

I should be updating my blog a lot these days, because I have fewer obligations – but I seem to be filling my time with other on-grid things. I need to remedy that. But this time, I’ll again share a guest post from new notes that I found scratched in my chicken coop: Day 437 […]

For those of you who haven’t heard yet – my book is out! I released The Surface’s Endon Amazon last week, which is one of the reasons I haven’t blogged in a while; all of my writing efforts have been spent getting it ready. Luckily, I now know how the dog-and-pony show goes. That way, […]

At the end of my last post, I had seven adult chickens in my chicken tractor, and nine new chicks in a temporary brooder. The brooder is literally just a storage container with a heat lamp hovering above it in my garage – because 1) I’m busyand 2) I’m cheap. Cheep cheep. I’ve been planning […]

Taking eggs from chickens isa little strange when you think about it. Obviously, an egg forming in a chicken’s body and then ending up on our plate is magical or whatever, but I’m talking about the actual experience of getting the egg. My small coop has three nesting boxes, so anytime I swing by, I […]

It’s been a long time since my last update. Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. For a while, I planned on a new blog post about once a week.But as it often does, life kept getting in the way. So, for the next handful of updates, I’ll try to recall all of […]

[***WARNING – if you have a weak stomach, skip this post***]

I don’t often scare myself, but I might have just tipped the scales.

Obviously, everyone that knows me pretty well thinks I’m either crazy or…  Well, crazy in a weird, responsible way.  I’m not sure which camp would be right in this scenario.

Remember the free meat that literally fell at my doorstep?  Well, what I ate of it was really good!  Unfortunately, the rest of it was in the freezer in my garage, which one day decided to stop wo...