I LOVE our new chickens.  At first I felt scared, and responsible, but overnight they won my heart, and I am here for them.  I took some more pictures of them, but I’ll post them tomorrow.

Big news.  We picked up some chickens about an hour ago.  We got them from a guy who raises them.  His name is Duane, and he’s from Winslow, AR.  We got a mixed batch of breeds.  They are all female (15 in all), Paul has their breeds written down somewhere, but I don’t know what they are off hand, besides the fact that they are indeed chickens.  WOW.  So here we go.  Do we have any experience in the chicken arena?  Paul’s parents raised some when he was a kid.  But that’s it.  That’s where the experience stops, and the real world begins folks.  The great chicken experiment.  It’s like having new babies, and extension of our family.  Now we’re really tied down, or so it seems, and they’ve only been here an hour.  Poor things.  Can’t wait to name them.

Not EVERY time, but sometimes.  It froze here a few days ago, and we covered our lettuce up with some heavy plastic to insulate it a smidge.  However, it still received some burnt spots here and there.  The arugula is especially suffering.  I don’t know what it’s problem is.  Some bugs must be eating it, because there are tiny little holes here and there on some of the leaves.  Whateve’s, who likes arugula any way?  And do I have pictures today?  No, I do not.  Please use your imagination, and I’ll see what I can’t do for the future.  Until then readers…FANS…keep it rockin’. 

Paul and I managed to have some seeds pop up .  I don’t know how.  Mother Nature does crazy things.  About 99% of our tomato seeds popped up.  Our bell peppers (which were planted at the same time) have only had about a 20% success rate.  I don’t know what their deal is.  Maybe they just take longer.  We managed to keep the shop around 80 degrees with the wood stove.  You can’t win them all I guess (but prove me wrong bell peppers!)  Our genovese basil was 100% successful, as was our lemon and lime basil.  The thai basil is sleeping in with the bell peppers, it is having a pitiful performance.  

This post is to explain some of the pictures I’ve been taking.  If you want to know about all of the holes I’ve dug, you can call me and I’ll let you know.  These pictures are a mishmash of the last couple of weeks.  Planting seeds (tomatoes and bell peppers), installing lights for the seeds, the turquoise pond (it’s been raining a lot), Paul working on the chicken coop, blah blah blah.   Not really too much information there….sorry.