Cluck-Cluck!!

This is the owie Elrey got:

While building this:

It is a coop for, you guessed it, these pretty ladies:

Let’s go back to the owie-As you have seen there is a poll going on about a staple gun accident. I am very disappointed in some of you. It is clearly harder to rip a staple from my husbands thumbnail with pliers than it is to actually get the staple imbedded in the thumb!! I was a literal war medic! I gave him a wooden spoon to bite down on, some whiskey and yanked with all my might! I am clearly tougher!!!

Seriously though, it was a little frightening! He was using a staple that you pound like a hammer and it staples. It just so happen his thumb got in the way. I think he wanted to make sure his thumbnail is securely attached to his thumb! He was pretty tough, though-he only cried a little…actually he didn’t cry at all. The first thing he said after I performed surgery was-“I should’ve taken a picture!!”

Our awesome friends, Karlie and Jeremy gave us 2 of their chickens! We got our 2 lovely ladies who were quickly named Gabriella(white) and Chicken(black and white). Take a guess who named whom!! Chicken has been recently crowned Princess Chicken. 

Our girls love these two hotties! They always want to go out and check on them which includes (lucky for the chickens) chasing them around to try and pick them up, checking for eggs, throwing stuff at the birds when they won’t let them pick them up, and tracking all sorts of mud and possible poo on to my kitchen floor! I think that last part has been remedied, I hope!! My children’s love is a painful thing since it is usually emphasized with a knee to the crotch or gut so I feel these chickens’ pain!

They are a fun addition to our family and we are happy that not only do they provide us with lots of chicken poo, they give us breakfast! So far it’s been more of an Easter egg Hunt since they weren’t laying in the coop so we were searching for the eggs we were sure they laid. Turns out they were nesting UNDER the coop in our compost pile and we found 4 eggs under there! That has now been blocked off so hopefully they learn to do that “bidnes” in the coop!

Here is one last pic of Lily, she LOVES these chickens, all ready to chase her new live toys!

As Amber said-we are going sooo country!!! YEE HAW!!! Next thing we will do is build a cow stall in our easement!!