No, not from the eggs I was so excited about in the last post. Nope, I bought these chicks. 21 of them to be exact. That’ll teach Bryan to send me off on my own to the flea market for farm animals! I’d been “chatting” with a lady in a Yahoo! Group and on the […]
Month: January 2010
My Wii Fit Age!
I got a Wii Fit for my birthday back in October. My 35th birthday. I was pretty gung-ho about using it to get in shape again. What is it they say about best laid plans? One of the really cool (read with sarcastic tone) features of the Wii Fit is that it calculates your […]
We Have Had Have Eggs!
We have eggs! Woohoo! I’ve been very anxious, since before Christmas, for our hens to start laying. When we got them in early October, we were told that they’d just started molting. So I started counting the weeks to when we should start getting eggs from them. When we got back home from our New […]
Ode (sort of) to Cookie
“Cookie” December 28, 2009 – January 6, 2010 We brought “Cookie” home with us from Bryan’s mom’s house in Alabama this past weekend. A tiny little pygmy kid, she was just born on December 28, 2009. On the trip home, we named her “Cookie” because the contrast between her ears and her body coat looked like […]
Wonder Boy … the Bully???
By the time I’m writing this it’s pretty much moot, which, despite the fact that it’s a reminder that I’m neglecting the blog, really is a good thing. You see, before Thanksgiving, we were having a bit of a problem with Wonder Boy at daycare. Okay, that’s an understatement. Our 2-year-old was on the verge […]
The Farm Expansion a/k/a Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
I grimaced when I first wrote the last word of the title to this post … read on, you’ll understand. Warning: this post has pictures which may not be for the faint at heart; proceed at your own risk. Within a week (or maybe 2, honestly, who can keep up?) of getting the chickens, we […]