So it's not spring yet and we still have a few months to go but...the famous groundhog from my hometown stated spring will come early this year so that's enough to get me thinking about warmer weather and more sunshine!
Today, it's frigidly cold and the ground is covered with snow or ice. Regardless of the freezing weather, J and the boys cleaned out the chicken coop and stacked some wood. One by one, they would come into the house, rosy cheeks and all, and warm up by the roaring fire. Later in the day, a trip to the local farm supply store yielded wood chips for the coop (straw was too expensive) and some seed packets. Our oldest picked out the dragon gourd and snake gourd seed packets. Farmer J thought the chickens would like some cat grass. (Maybe our future barn cats will like the cat grass too).
J continues to make plans for our future bees. The blueprints and bee hive kits arrived in the mail earlier this week. I wonder if the bees arrive through the US postal mail like the chicks did??
We also need to start planning on which chickens breeds we will order as well. We are certain that we want only hens but have yet to decide if we are going to have only egg laying birds or some designated meat birds.
Lots to think about and plan. Luckily, we recently found out J's teaching contract and our lease will extend AT LEAST through June, 2014. It's nice to know that we are going to be staying put for the next fifteen months.
I'll leave you with one last sweet story. My parents were visiting us a few weeks back. My mom was helping Pickle get on his jacket and she noticed one of his pockets felt a little heavy. As a mother and grandmother of boys, she was fully expecting to find a matchbox car, rock or even a chunk of ice but instead she found... an egg! And it was still in one piece. Now more than ever, I'll have to be good at checking pockets before doing laundry! We don't need scrambled eggs in the dryer!
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