Zipper replacement

Last year the dogs chewed on my down jacket because I'd left it hanging over a chair with a few treats in the pocket. Surprisingly, they only messed up the zipper and did not actually put a hole in the fabric, which they mostly just licked. Yesterday I finally sat down to replace the zipper. The most time consuming part of this was using the seam ripper to remove the old zipper. I then proceeded to sew in the first half of the new zipper, and I was happy with my handiwork:

I even put a binding over the edge of the zipper. Good job, me!

Then it was time to unzip the new zipper and pin it to the other side of the jacket and I realized...

I'd purchased the wrong type of zipper. This one did not separate.

So I used the seam ripper to remove the new zipper as well, and put in an order for a separating zipper. Lesson learned.

Rabbit broth

4 liters of rabbit broth. Guess what happened the first time I poured myself some soup.

Molting chickens

Egg production has steeply dropped off. At first I assumed it was due to the shorter days, but this morning I noticed that the coop had a handful of feathers scattered around. It seems my girls are molting for the winter.

However my least favorite chicken, the Ameraucana, is redeeming herself by continuing to lay one blue egg nearly every day.