The incredible edible egg...

Big Mama gave us an egg!
wahooooo!!!!

random pictures

I imported the photos from my iPod this weekend and found quite a few that I had forgotten about so I thought I would share some of them today. Of course the pictures are a little grainy because they were taken with the iPod.

Also, experienced a a first today...went to the feed store to get chicken feed and straw by myself. And I was wearing heels. Awesome.

Harper eats green beans

Avy eats cantaloupe, pre recall. ;)

Avy and I, fun with photo booth and my new glasses.

garden

I harvested some tomatoes the other day...finally! I have been making pesto at least once a week because our basil is growing so well. We have lots of parsley so I guess we will probably freeze some of that to use through the winter. Our peppers are looking good too.
We have been talking about keeping a garden since we bought our house and finally this summer had a small 6x6 box that we built. We have quite a large area that we would eventually like to fill with box gardens and next summer is our goal to have that all ready to go. I was looking around on (big surprise here) pinterest again and found this yard full of gardens and chickens and immediately had a picture of our yard in my head. So we got out the grid paper and are plotting our boxes so we can get them all built this fall and winter and put in place. Then in the spring we will have a load of planter's mix delivered and get them all filled.
Here is what we hope to see next year in our yard...

Source: goddesshobbies.blogspot.com via Annie on Pinterest

chickens

Did you know we have chickens? We currently have 11 chickens. They will be laying eggs in just a few months. It is has been a [mostly] fun process to watch them grow up and see their personalities emerge. We have held off on assigning any names because we may end up having to see them on our dinner plate eventually and that would just be weird. However there is one bird that has earned a name...we call her Big Mama. She is a real peach to deal with.

Big Mama and her Leghorn self.

I'll share more in the future about our chickens and some of the things we have learned since having them.