Chickens survival

"Oh I had a little chicky
And she wouldn't lay an egg
So I poured hot water
Up and down her leg
And the little chicky hollered
And the little chicky begged
And the little chicky laid me

A hard boiled egg!"
Have a Wonderful Week,
Wendy Cameron

The Girls

The girls LOVE worms!

Painting the coop

The Boys did a stellar job.

Albert the Chicken Master

Albert wants to be a falconair when he grows up.  Start on chickens, move to geese, then hummingbirds, robins, magpies, buzzards then...

chickens

It's 8:30. Do you know where you husband is?  Mine is out working on the coop for his 4 mistress'. Or is it 7?  At least he is having fun.

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tonight

Friends

The birthday that will never end.  His labor was shorter than the family birthday, the school birthday and finally the friends birthday!  Eight 7 year old boys for a Star Wars sleep over.  Chaos reigned.  Pizza and the original Star Wars movies.  Light Sabers for all the boys.  Fights ensued.  No one had to visit the first aid shuttle.  "Kill the bounty or (brownie) hunter was shouted.  11pm still going strong.  I sit with them, "put your head on your pillow or I will call your mother!"  Five minutes later all are asleep.  Up at 6 am bacon and pancakes.  

After all you are only 7 once.  Magic.

Chickens

Painting the trim pepto pink

Family Birthday

The 7 year old"s family birthday party

Chickens survival

I watched a fox tonight prowl around our wood pile.  It trotted off with a mouse in it's mouth.  Better build a fox proof yard.  Norbert was going crazy watching all this happen, from the safety of inside.  Can't help but remember old Warner Brothers cartoons with the dog and the flock of sheep and ole Wyle e. Coyote.

april fools

Happy April Fool's day.  Henry successfully took the fart machine to school.  Too bad it went off during the Pledge.  I didn't even know that kids still had to recite it.  It was a good object lesson for having a sense of humor.  If you ever have kids in a bad mood just give them the fart machine and let them have at it, soon they will be laughing.

But today I got the boys good.  I went to the mercado and got 10 quail eggs.  I put them in the girls new cage.  When the boys came home from school they had to do their normal job of cleaning out the cage.  Low and behold "MOM OUR CHICKENS HAVE LAID EGGS!"

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