Chickens!

I heart chickens.  We bought 5 little baby chicks on March 10.  They were born on March 6.  So tomorrow they will be 2 weeks old.  Boy they sure are fun.  We are in the process of designing a coop which we will hopefully start next weekend (I almost just said "nest" weekend.  hilarious.)

I have a husband and father-in-law who are experienced and knowledgeable about baby chicks and chickens.  Which is good.  Because I don't think I'd have the nerve if there wasn't someone around here who knew what they were doing!  But because I am enjoying it so much I have also gotten every book I can on the subject from the library.  There is one called Chick Days by Jenna Woginrich.  I really loved that book.  If you are thinking of getting chickens and want to read a cute fun little book about it, pick this one up.  Tomorrow I am going to get her other book, Made From Scratch.  She is a little city girl with an office job turned farmer/homesteader.  I love her writing style and personality.  She also has a blog at http://coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com which she updates with witty, quirky, lovely posts daily and sometimes more often than that.  She lives in upstate New York and I so wish I lived close to her!   She often has workshops at her farm covering everything from raising chickens and keeping bees to spinning your own yarn from wool from sheep you raised.  From homebrewing and archery to teaching yourself to play the fiddle.  This girl is pretty amazing.  I wish she were my friend.  I feel like we would be good friends.

Anyway, I will make do with reading her books and blog.  Taking pictures of my cute little chickens, and dreaming of being a real, live farmer. 

I'm not going to post videos here and now, but go to http://www.youtube.com/user/MissaDeller?feature=mhee   to see the chicky videos I've uploaded (I'll be putting more up soon)!

Here's the first set of week old chicks:

 (guess what...)

And a little older now:

Suki guarding her flock.  They will grow up to be bigger than she is.

movin' on up

...hello, Clarice.

I'm going to Disneyland

And they’re off…

After about a month of lounging around the house, we are back in full swing.  I left the house at 8 and didn’t really get home until 8.  Yep that’s how it goes around here.

Today was our first day back at school, I had 2 different doctor’s appointments, got my face lasered, and had our first night of ice skating lessons.  I think I drove around Ogden en total about 4 times today.

Tomorrow, I can’t wait to go to pilates and old folks’ yoga.  Feels like I haven’t been in a year.  Then Thursday we have a doctor’s appointment for Cody and Friday a needle aspiration biopsy of a nodule they found on my thyroid.  Good times I tell you!!

We gave back the preschool guinea pigs this morning.  It was fun to watch them over break, also fun to give them back!

Busy week.  Nothing like diving back in.  I miss my couch.  And my lazy Christmas vacation days.

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Here are some pictures of lessons, I will bring the camera next week.  Burgundy is in the red helmet and Finn in the yellow & blue helmet.  Helmets were optional, the first time I ever ice skated I fell and literally cracked my head open.  So yeah, we opted for it. (Super-graceful over here, yep.)

Though there was a lot of falling down happening, they both did quite well.  Burgundy would get a little teary when she saw me through the glass, so I tried to remain hidden.  She loves dance classes, any other lessons are not really her favorite thing.  But hopefully she will give it another go next week.  Think we have her convinced, but she is not easily swayable once she has decided upon something.  Pretty much immovable, this kid. 

Finn is excited to go back.  He could have been in a different (older) class, but since he’s never been on the ice before and since no way Indi would do it without him there, we put him in the same class as her.  I think it worked out well that way.