My flock is growing.

Earlier this summer I set off to build a run for the chickens. When I got the lumber home and actually started building this thing I realized that it was going to be huge! It is 4ft high by 8ft wide by 12ft deep. This thing is a coup in its self. In face I am just going to enclose one end of it for their hen house.

Well of course now that I have a new huge coup I needed some more chickens to go in it right? Yes! So now I have 7, yes 7 chickens. 6 Silkies and 1 orpington. The orpington is the leader, she cries for the babies if she can’t find them. It is really cute actually, I have to make the kids go find her and walk her out to the front yard. First we started with Rapunzel, noodle, and princess. The 4 new ones don’t have names yet. Two of the new ones are around 10 weeks old and they have the same coloring as princess and noodle so today I caught them all and painted their toe nails different colors to make sure we could tell them apart.

Then I also got two babies. They are about a week or so old and they are lighter colored than the others. They are so tiny and so cute! The only bad part about them is that I have to catch them at night and bring them in the house to sleep. Man those little peepers can really peep. The kids have already started thinking of names for all of the new ones.

I really want three more colors of silkies, buff, lavender, and paint. They are just so cute and fluffy how could you not want one of each color? I can’t wait till the tiny one get bigger so I have a better idea of what their coloring will be like. I might have a silkie problem. 

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First week of school.

We have survived our first week of school! It was only a three day week and one of the days was early release but we survived. Everyone had packed lunches and everyone was at school on time every day. This is a win to me! I was so lucky that the first week fell on my three day stretch off of work, I did not have to return to work until tonight (Friday).

Ronnie is going to all day pre-k this year and is doing wonderfully, even taking naps! I’m very happy with both of the teachers in this class. The two Para educators and even Ms. Jones have all came by to see how he is doing and help out in the class. I love the attention that they are able to give him. I am hoping that this all day pre-k will help prepare him for all day kindergarten next year.

Miss Evee has been a champ in 1^st grade. She loves her teacher and going to school. A friend of ours has a son who is in her class this year as well. They have been hanging out in the mornings before school on the playground. There are also a handful of students from her class last year back this year.

Ron was pretty sad about being in San Diego for their first days but I sent him a ton of pictures and made him feel like he was here. The Seahawks also played the first game of the season this week so Evee rocked her huge Seahawks bow in spite of the uniform policy. We love dressing up for game day. Since we don’t have cable to watch the game we headed out to Applebee’s to have some half price appetizers and watch as much of the game as they would let me. We made it 10 minutes into the second quarter. I call that a success, we listened to the rest of the game on the radio in my car as I worked on the chicken coup.

It’s been a fun week. I feel like I am ready to take on the school year! Drop offs, pick ups, and packed lunches and all!

Ronnie's first day of Pre-K

Evee's 1st day of 1st grade

Ronnie's classroom is decked out in Seahawks gear.

She is growing up so fast.  

Fall is fast approaching.

 Summer is quickly coming to an end and the start of school is looming rather close. I have been trying to take advantage of the nice weather before all things fall start to happen. Today I mowed the lawn, for the very first time, EVER. I have weed whacked a lawn before but never mowed it. Let me tell you that was hard work! No one told me that the grass should be dry before you try to mow it. So this made for a lot of stalling and an arm workout restarting the mower every two seconds. Despite the stalling I got it finished and felt pretty darn good. Now the chickens won’t get lost when they are roaming around.

After the lawn mowing fiasco I set out to work on the new chicken coup. I almost finished one section putting up the chicken wire and I royally jammed up my stapler. I’m talking I tried everything to get the thing unjammed, a nail, a screw, a screw driver, some tweezers, and even my forceps! I could not get that stinking little staple out! So I brought it to work with me tonight and a friend here was able to pry it out with a pair of scissors. I was so mad! I was on a roll with doing chores around the house this morning, until the jammed stapler.

Tomorrow night is back to school night at the kids’ school. We get to meet their teachers, drop off school supplies, and eat crappy hot dogs. I am off for it though as well as their first day of school. I’m pretty excited about that. In fact I am off until Friday night so I get to be home for the entire first week. Hopefully our new schedule goes off without a hitch. I’m really hoping that all of my planning insures this. I do need to put the finishing touches on my teacher gifts and still get a few last minute supplies for Miss Evee, but I think other than that we are good to go, well if her uniforms come in time! If they don’t I will be improvising some uniform type clothing that fits her still! I might have been a little late placing my uniform order this year.

Now that my stapler is unjammed I’ll work more on the coup when I get home in the morning before we head off to do some errands. Unless I fall asleep first!

Noodle

Princess

Rapunzel