our peeps arrived…

and all twenty survived. Yay! There are some Banties, Brown Leghorns, Anconas and Barred Rocks.
As you can see, they were all passed out asleep when they arrived.

If playing mother hen comes easy for anyone, it will be Abby. She jumped right in there and started taking care of them immediately.

Danielle’s method of petting them is [...]

yoHO, yoHO…

…it’s a pirate’s life for me! Well, it was for Memorial Day anyway. :) We decided to get out and have some fun – and boy did we! :)
This was a first for all three of the kids and by the last hole I’d say they pretty much had it figured out (in spite of [...]

i suppose finding a snake skin…

is definitely better than finding the actual snake – a live one anyway. Of course it does mean that he’s still out there.

When stretched all the way out this guy is a couple of inches taller than me!

we prefer the functionality of our wellies…

…over fashion any day.

not a single one flew the coop…

…or sadly enough even had a chance to hatch. :( The eggs were there one day, gone the next. According to what I read it could have been a crow, blue jay, chipmunk, weasel, squirrel, skunk, raccoon, snake, small rodent, cat, or bird of prey.

Ummm, seeing as how this nest is right outside my bedroom [...]

i’d like to say…

…that my blogging absence is due to a lavish world vacation packed full of spa treatments, high class meals, and guided tours of the most coveted places. But I can’t. For some reason my conscience won’t allow me. :)
But just to plead my case, I have been doing a little spring cleaning, attempting to organize [...]