What's up on the homestead?

Seriously, now, somebody needs to go to camera anonymous!

Last night, we let the chickens out of their coop to run around the yard... I laughed and laughed. Most of the pictures were too blurry from laughing. But here is a little photo journal of their little excursion! I hope you enjoy them!










Dinner tonight.... brats on the grill fresh corn and beans from the garden. MMMM good!



What is a post without the current SUNFLOWER? We picked the first gourds off the vine today. Let 'em dry and onto bird houses! Yee Haa!



I gotta new toy! A bread maker.... yummy!




Have a great night all!

Ps.... don't forget the contest ends the 31st. Make sure you post on the contest post to let me know you are in!

Having a Sunflower Day!

How 'bout you?

30 Drops in 30 Days!!!!!

The honor goes to RED SOX MOMMY!!!!!!!

Green News from impNERD

Here is the link to a blog post I really enjoyed.

Top 10 Least Talked About Green Technologies

He talks about inflatable solar collectors and solar ovens. He shows graphics of molten salt storage. Bio diesel is a big deal these days... how about from algae. Different ways to harness wind and use of turbines. Painting windows? This is my favorite.... a soft house: turn the sun’s energy into electricity by using textiles. Go ahead.... check out impNERD. He's got links tied to all of these subjects... tell him Christina at CoffeeCoffeeCoffee sent you!

Do we REALLY understand?

.... about the effects of genetically modified foods affect US, not the world in general, but you and me! How does it affect your life? Any clue? Well, there are no studies out there that I have been able to find that says that GM foods are good for you. Studies talk around it and say it is not bad for you. Well, the foods that I eat I want to be good for me. Here are some more articles that m~ from The Suburban Farmer led me to which let me to some others. As always I want to thank my blog friends for sending out the word.

• Bees In The Corn from Twice Bloomed Wisteria
• Monarch Butterfly deaths from GM pollen ~ Genetically modified crops may kill Monarch Butterfly
• GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN STUDY REVEALS HEALTH DAMAGE & COVER-UP
• Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health?
• The Real Problem with Genetically Modified Foods
• On the Edge -- Genetically Altered Foods
• World Hunger by Brian Kenneth Swain

I read some of the excerpts from World Hunger so I bought it. It is on its way. I look forward to sharing insights from this book in future posts. As always, I am very interested in reading more. So my friends.... send me any links that come your way. I truly appreciate it.

Now I am late for work... must run. I hope everyone has GMO free day!

Stop Genetically Engineerd Sugar!

Show your support! Sign the letter at Organic Consumers Association. Read the article Stop Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets follow the link at the end to show your support. Read more about Kellogg's and their role in the use of GE sugars in their products here.

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useful news tibdbits, tips and information for the green-minded
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Do you want to know where your state stands? Just look here!

Want to take a stand? Sign this petition.

Petition to Support U.S. Food Agenda 2015

By signing this petition , I call on U.S. elected officials, political candidates, and regulatory agencies to pursue the following three public policies:

(1) Moratorium on all genetically engineered foods & crops unless adequate safety-testing proves they are safe for human health & the environment. The FDA should require all GE foods to be labeled and safety-tested.

(2) Begin the phase-out of industrial agriculture's damaging practices by banning the most dangerous pesticides as well as hormone implants, antibiotics and rendered animal protein in animal feed. Ban corporate feedlots and intensive confinement of farm animals.

(3) Implement a long-term "transition to organic" program to shift agricultural production in the US from chemical-intensive, industrial farming to at least 30% organic by the year 2015.



Sign it.... Be proactive.... Find out what the government is allowing to happen to our foods!

Thanks again to Robbyn at The Back Forty, she is always keeping me on my toes!

My Very First TIME!!!!!!

Well, fellow bloggers, old and new blog friends, I like to take this time to thank everyone for the honor of receiving my VERY FIRST MEME tag! Especially, Louise from Living in Seychelle for tagging me!

Here are the rules:
1. List these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

1. I am mom and nana.
2. My favorite color is red.
3. I love sunflowers.
4. I lived in Japan for 5 years.
5. I started my website, The Original Coffee Company, just over a year ago.
6. I was born and raised in central Indiana.
7. I have blue eyes.

The following have been tagged!!!!

1. Robbyn at The Back Forty
2. Barb at A Cowboy's Wife
3. m~ at In The Kitchen
4. Kathy at Brazoscowgirl
5. jaydee at life in the lost world
6. Lisa at Too Busy 2 Clean
7. Melinda at elements in time
   

Well, my friends... I hope you enjoy this and humor me as this is my first! Thanks a bunch!

hable espanol?

....my son, the world traveler!

Up Up in the sky......



He's at home on a Caribbean beach or on the highest peaks.

Learning histories of ancient peoples.
(This is an actual Mayan Ruin...I'm impressed, but I'm Mom!)

Local frogs (in his hotel) and plant life (he called it ~ decomposer?)

Hanging out with his friends!

His UF group.


My son, Brian, one happy boy! I love you, son!

A Summer Evening ....

...On The Homestead

It was a lovely Saturday evening, I got home from work.
Sugar and I went out to talk to the chickens.

We decided that is was a lovely day for a walk about the garden.

We stopped and admired the sunflowers.
We noted how big the rape seed and sweet potatoes were.
.
The gourds are going to make some beautiful bird houses.
Then we noticed some critters on the basil and lettuce.
OMY!


Then it was time for dinner.

The coals were lit and the steaks put on the fire.
Then what did we see.....

are those grey clouds rolling in very fast?
The steaks ... what will happen?

Just grab an umbrella and keep on cookin'!
MMMMMM yummy!


Hope y'all have a great night!

Powerful Words.....

There is a blog I absolutely adore... unfortunately her blog and my computer do not get along well. Well today, I has access to another computer and got to read some of her recent posts. YEAH!

At life in the lost world... I read jaydee's post the battle is going mainstream... talking about finding a non gmo product and the post why i do what i do... in this post she referred to a post by Granny Miller, Why I Do It talking about why it is better to raise your own food (meat, especially) I am no where as eloquent as either of these ladies. Please visit their blogs and read their words. I am profoundly affected by both of the ladies.

We are in the process of building a homestead. We garden (organically), we raise chickens (for eggs and eventually meat), and we are planning the pigs....



links to blogs and post here


life in the lost world

post ~ "the battle is going mainstream"

post~ "why i do what i do"


Granny Miller

post~ "Why I Do It"

UPDATE.... This is the last time I try to post from work..... It was formatted all wrong.... I hope I got it more readable! But even if you can't read me.... READ THEM!!!!!!

Millions Against Monsanto

I know this really great Lady, her name is Robbyn of The Back Forty, she has a blog that has so opened my eyes. A few months ago I first hear about a company called Monsanto, the most recognizable product they put out is a herbicide called RoundUp. How many of us have grabbed a bottle of that to kill a weed or two around the house? Guilty. I was not always so enlightened. But if that was all this multi national corporation had done to the peoples of this world, it would still be bad.

Unfortunately, these are really, really, really BAD people.

They take our food seed and chop up the dna and rearrange it. Tell us we can only use certain things to produce it with. Sue us, when we are not using their GMO seed, if we accidentally get a seed from one their strains in our fields. Contaminate crops world wide so that native species can no longer be grown while the inhabitants of that area starve. And it goes on......

Anyway here is the link to Robbyn's article ~ it is a must read for anyone interested in having a say in our future food production. Yes~this can does affect us NOW in our lives. Food costs and availability are directly related to Monsanto's immoral and unethical and criminal behavior!

"Debunking The Propaganda: Genetically Modified Plants No Answer to the World Food Crisis"

I get really mad and upset when I think of the travesties that are allowed to happen.

Links to some past posts on this subject. Once again.... and Bio Engineered.....

Thank you Robbyn!

Sitting here with my coffee and Technorati

Rambling and Ranting from a Crazy person.... haaaaheeeehoooo (are you sure you want to read this?)

I don't know how important Technorati is. But we all like to measure. How many visitors. Rate this. Rate that. etc etc....

Well, I picked up a few friends at bloglog and fuelme.. blogcatalog has been pretty active along. I put a couple of counters on a couple of months or so ago. I ditched one. The one I have up now says that I have had 2,111 visits... pretty cool, since sometime in May, I think. On June 6th I add a post about the Technorati Experiment. My rating was 7 at the time. On July 8th, I got in on the ground floor of the New LinkBack Project. My technorati has gone from 24 to 85 in 9 days.... Amazing.

Now with EntreCard and SezWho, I am getting more comments. I don't know. Why blog? Who cares? I don't know. I enjoy it. But is it really worth the time? Who's life has been enriched by reading my words. Yeah, I know some of you like my photos. I would love to generate some income from the time I have invested. My contest has only had a few participants. (I have one person that I met because of the contest~a fellow coffee lover, that is fantastic. I guess the time, the effort has been justified by that.)

I really would like to get more traffic to the website. I was hoping that I could generate more income there. I have a second site on the verge of opening. Will it just get lost in the see of amateur dot coms out there? Will people be interested in my product? I don't know. Just rambling on.

At one time in my life, I had the opportunity to be a stay at home mom/wife/person. I could have taken the innitiative and done it. I would be where I really want to be now. Now, it just seems very, very far away. Don't get me wrong.... I finally have a great job. One that has ethics close to my own, where I can make a decent living. I just want to have the time to bake the bread, earn a little $, tend the garden, earn a little $. Being outside the home, home stuff just doesn't get the priority it should.

Well thanks for reading my rambles today. Don't feel sorry for me. I just needed to write. And you, lucky readers, got to read it! I hope everyone has a great day! Blog ON!

Entrecard ROCKS your blog's comments!

I know several of you who have been following me for a little while have seen my blog go through some growing pains.... I added EntreCard about a month ago. It is a tool to generate more traffic. I have enjoyed it and learned alot and met many new bloggers who are now regular reads of mine.

Here is a little bit about EntreCard and SezWho. If you click on the text, it will take to the sites!

What is the value of networking through Entrecard?

Entrecard provides a unique networking platform for owners of blogs. When you receive a card in your inbox, it isn't from Grandma checking up on her sonny. It is from someone who owns an operates a blog, just like you. Someone motivated, like you, eager to make connections, branch out, and do what it takes to find success on the net. These are some of your most valuable readers, because they in turn have influence over audiences themselves. So go forth and network in confidence that you are making the right kinds of connections.

EntreCard and SezWho have joined forces to make a more powerful force in the blogging world.

What is SezWho?

SezWho is a universal profile service that engages your community and enables content discovery. SezWho is all about making the Social Web truly social. SezWho enables content rating, universal user profiles, and reputation-based content discovery to be added to any social media site. The SezWho service works with blogs, forums, wikis, video/picture sharing sites, discussion boards and anywhere else where people contribute content and engage in conversations. SezWho is focused on delivering benefits to all participants in social media interactions: . Readers can easily distinguish credible content and commentary, and they can follow contributors as they participate on social media sites across the web . Contributors gain web-wide recognition for their insights and expertise, with a universal profile that accumulates a record of all their contributions, across all communities . Site-Owners and Publishers can spotlight and leverage informative, high-quality content to engage their communities and drive traffic

Read more about the venture of EntreCard and SezWho here.

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Top 10 reasons why the Entrecard - SezWho partnership is Important for Bloggers

Join in the Entrecard Craze....

Reduce Reuse Recyle

Live Earthworms

Compost Gardening Fishing Worms

Put these amazing little creatures to work for you. I do not till my soil but rather maintain a thick layer of mulch that feeds the earthworms and in turn, the earthworms feed the soil. I found that tilling just brings new weed seeds to the surface to spout. The mulch also holds the moisture in and makes it difficult for weeds to sprout.


Live Earthworms at The Original Coffee Company

Go Green

Check out the Rooster

LOOK MA....

I can crow!

Starring

Stew and the Hens

A Sugar Production

COPYWRITE 2008

HOMESTEAD CREATIONS INC

What To On The Homestead Between Chores...

PLAY CRIBBAGE!!!

What is Cribbage you might ask? Just a board with pegs and holes and a deck of cards.....

Yeah, there is more to it than that. You have to be able to count! Deal 6 cards to each player. ( you can have upto 4~our board only has two lanes). The dealer is the "crib" holder. Each player keeps 4 cards and puts 2 in the "crib". A player who is not the "crib" holder cuts a card from the remaining deck. That card is used in each players hand during that round of play. A jack cut is always 2 points to the "crib" holder. The pegs start out in home base, as you score points you move your peg the number of holes of the points you scored. Points are scored a number of ways. Runs of three or more. (you can have double or more runs) Also pairs, trips and 4 of kind scores. And combinations of card that add up to 15.
This particular hand is a quadruple run. 4 runs of 3 cards = 12 points 2 pairs = 4 points and 4 combinations of 15 = 8 points For a total of 24 points.... this is a great hand!
This is the primo ~ best hand ever~ the one to kill for!

THE 29 HAND 8 15's for 16 points 6 pairs of 5s for 12 points and the NIBS for 1 point. When you have a jack that matches the cut card it is 1 point.

Here are some sites with more details.... It is a fun game. More interesting than TV & cheaper than the movies. It's something to do when it's raining and you can't be outside! Try it ~ have fun!

Cribbage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cribbage Official Tournament Rules

Six Card Cribbage

No Not Again!

Who Let Christina Have The Camera, AGAIN?????

What can I say? I love my sunflowers. I love my camera.

I was playing in b/w and setting f stops and apetures and what ever else you can do in a manual mode. So this is what you get~~a study of sunflower! I had fun hope you enjoy looking it!!!

...While I am here... and I have a couple more sunflowers ~ with the bees no less! *evil laugh!*

Off to work.... time to create havoc there! Have a great day everybody!

Words from Mexico

My son, Brian, who is in grad school at the University of Florida, took off for Mexico the 22nd of June. Well, FINALLY, some communication from him. He posted this entry on his my space blog. I thought I would share it with you! (picture of said son and his nieces, my grandbabies!)

[08 Jul 2008 Tuesday]

4:01
PM - Merida, Mexico Current mood: accomplished
Hello, my friends and
family! Buenos dias! I am completely enjoying myself in the Yucatan, at my home
in Merida. Mama Margarita takes care of me, always ensuring I have had enough
grains and vegetables to eat, and enough sodium to help keep me hydrated.
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wedsdays are school days...Ecology/Anthropology and
Spanish. Classes are going well. The weekends are for excursions, and they (two
so far) have been wonderful. Before a single day in the classroom we all set out
for the carribean coast, visiting the Mayan ruins of Ek Balam, Tulum and Coba.
They were beautiful and reverent. The sights have been breathtaking, and the
work involved in climbing to the top of some of them has been well worth the
effort. The heat and humidity here is insane, though! It's a lot of work to stay
healthy and protected from the sun. This past weeked we went along the Puuc
Route, visiting more ruins, some cenotes and caves, and generally having some
other wonderful experiences. One of the sweetest parts of the trip so far has
been all the maverick women we've met. From women initiating community building
projects (a school for the young and a recycled paper operation to support it)
against the tradition of the region to a woman who divorced her husband and is
spearheading an effort to teach women to keep successful kitchen gardens and
keep bees. We also visited a regional school for ecological agriculture, and
toured the facility - which is almost completely self-sufficient. We've packed a
lot in so far, and I'm excited for more! Pictures (spectacular) coming
soon?

New LinkBack Project!

This is a simple procedure. You might have seen it done elsewhere on a few scarce weblogs. What is different, is that when we reach a certain point on the list, we start yet another one. Instead of one master list and its done, we will repeat the process over and over again, with new folks jumping on board. These backlinks combined with the social networking friends status will affect all areas of search engine algorithims.

To participate is simple:

—>Copy The Post & List below into a blog post of yours.
—>Add Your Link to the list at the bottom.
—>Comment On the original post at LBP so that I can update the list with your link.
—>Make sure the list links and names are in place on your weblog post.
—>Digg, Stumble, Tag, and Reddit all of us, spread the word, get more on board.
—>Be sure to send them back to The Linkback Project for the updated list.

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1. The Linkback Project
2. All About Crime
3. Foolsville
4. Guy Vestal
5. SunEGrl Loves To Shop
6. Great Ways to Make Money Online
7. CoffeeCoffeeCoffee~the blog

YOUR NEXT!

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4. Guy Vestal
5. SunEGrl Loves To Shop
6. Great Ways to Make Money Online
7. Shabam Development
8. CoffeeCoffeeCoffee~the blog
9. Kinky Personification
10. Da Kinky Kid Speaks
11. Josh Ottley Dot Com
12. Cebu Entrepreneur
13. Random Detoxification
14. PoeARTica
15. CoolAdzine for Marketers
16. Best Blog in the Universe
17. Ctrl + Alt + Delete : Personal random journal and reviews
18. the blog lab
19. Bradley Hankins
20. The Radical Blog
21. Get Rich Quick !? Really ??
22. Musikalye - Music is a two-way street
23. Planeta Turismo Activo
24. Swollen Pickles
25. EZ RICH PROJECT
26. ULUPONGDOTCOM
27. Picture to People
28. Your Fun Family
29. Mob Me
30. Healthy Moola
31. Champagne Dreams
32. David Rader
33. Gossip Girls
34. Before I am Famous
35. SUPLADO Online Reviews
36. Salsa Faith
37. BigMoneyList
38. Emmsy’s Stuff
39. That Blog 4 Me
40. Hey Just Blog
41. A little bit of THIS & THAT
42. Poker Forums
43. Blogging Tips
44. Journal of Journey
45. Hypn.za.net
46. Download Applications, Themes for Smart Phones
47. Memory This
48. Make Money Online from Earth
49. Dare to be Rare
50. Your One Stop Information Center
51. Reality of Legal World
52. Nita's Random Thoughts
53. Nita's Corner
54. Great Finds and Deals
55. Thomas Travel Tales
56. Filipino Online Community
57. Batuananons
58. My Wandering Thoughts
59. Erlinda's Wandering Thoughts
60 Thomas Web Links
61. Aeropama Dot Com
62. Nita's Ramblings
63. Junior IM Dot Com
64. Internet Marketing Expose
65. Hasbullah Pit
66. Tangan Yang Menghayun Buaian
67. Jejak Sahabat SMSP
68. Blog Sempoi
69. More Cowbell!
70. Blog Anak Raja
71. Malaysian Digest
72. Encik Beliau : Interesting Tips
73. Ariyako `news of software, hardware, technology, tips and tricks”
74. Techno Zone
75. Hidup Biar Sedap
76. Inside Of Nasz
77. Blog Farahaznil
78. Mezain
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80. Suara Dari Keyboard Daddy
81. 24 Patrol
82. ketuk_angel
83. Koogita
84. Artikel Komputer & Internet
85. Sagittarius Wifey
86. Aeirin's Collections
87. MerapuLand
88. Ima Blogger
89. Morphed
90. The Techsta Blog
91. Mother’s Got a Dot Com
92. Mutiara Hati
93. The Unemployed Dad
94. Entertainment Daily
95. Life From A Cat's Perspective
96. Comedy Plus
97. Daytona Beach Real Estate
98. laketrees
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102. mar1masri
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CLOSED - COMPLETED 7/30/08

Have fun!

Changes....

Some of my regular friends may have noticed. I have been tweaking the blog. Not to worry. I just want less junk. More good. I have tried several times to import a 3 column template. Cannot do.... I went to word press. I would have to totally rewrite the css to get what I wanted there. So I will be playing around a bit for the next few days until I get what I want. I know a little html. So can play around in the html parameters of blogger. Wish me luck!
Christina

Rain at the homestead...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... I got camera happy today!

We have been in drought conditions in North Carolina for several years now. This spring we have been blessed and the water levels in the streams, rivers, lakes, and aquafers have risen. I think they might let us drink a little soon! But anyway, Me and my camera decided we wanted to get a picture of lightning (didn't happen) . So I tried to take a picture of rain. LOL Rain is hard to photograph. So I got the clouds in the sky. The rain rolling off the roof. The wind tossed garden bench. Drops falling in a mud puddle. The stream we call the drive way. During all this, a humming bird very nearly flew into my face. Hence the underneath of the hummer at the feeder. I also caught him perched on the sunflowers. Poor Sugar tried to get away during the lull in the drops..... but she can't go too far.... the rogue photographer always gets her subject!

Have a great day!

Bread Making at the homestead!

Gather up your ingrediants ~ get the yeast all nice and bubbly ~ mix until

nice and gooooooie ~ put it in a bowl ~ in a warm spot and let it grow!

and grow ~ and grow ~ and GROW!

divide the dough in to nice little loaves ~ and let it grow again!

Put it in the oven and bake til nice and warm and crispy on the outside!

WHO IS THAT GETTING MY BREAD?!?!?

Serve with some nice homemade soup!

Enjoy some homemade bread today!

Recipe from ALLRECIPES.COM

Fabulous Homemade Bread

Submitted by: J. DruryRated: 5 out of 5 by 265 members
Yields: 72 servings

"Best Homemade Bread - 6 loaves in less than 3 hours! This is a variation of my mother Elaine's recipe. She is 75, and still makes hers by hand. I cheat and use a Bosch mixer, that's my time saver."

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup warm water
3 (.25 ounce) packages active
dry yeast
1/4 cup bread flour
1 tablespoon white sugar
2 cups quick cooking oats
2 cups whole wheat flour
4 1/2 cups warm water
1 1/2 tablespoons salt
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
10 cups bread flour

DIRECTIONS:

1. In the mixing bowl of an electric mixer, stir together 1/2 cup warm water, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 cup bread flour, and yeast. Let grow for about 5 minutes. It will bubble almost immediately.

2. Measure oats, 4 1/2 cups warm water, whole wheat flour, salt, 2/3 cup sugar, and 2/3 cup oil into the mixing bowl. Mix on low speed with a dough hook for 1 to 2 minutes. Increase speed slightly, and begin adding bread flour 1/2 to 1 cup at a time until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. Humidity determines how much flour you need before the bread pulls away from the edge of the bowl. It is normal for the dough to be sticky.

3. Place dough in an oiled bowl, and turn to coat the surface. Cover with a damp cloth. Let rise in a warm spot for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.

4. Divide dough into 6 pieces. Shape loaves, and place in greased 8 x 4 inch pans. Let rise until dough is 1 inch above rim of pans, usually 1 hour.

5. Bake at 350 degrees F ( 175 degrees C) for 35 minutes, or until tops are browned. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 2008 Allrecipes.com

4th of July at the Homestead....

4th of July at the homestead

Stopped by Wally World on the way home tonight. Grabbed a couple of steaks for the grill. Low and behold.... there were fireworks right before my very eyes.... I hope you enjoy them as much as we did! (Somebody really needs to wean me from that camera! )

Happy 4th of July!

Once Again!!! NO Genetically Modified Foods!!!!!!

Robynn.... thanks again for the information!


Robynn led me to an article at ZNet on what our government is forcing into the foods ~ not only in the US ~ but internationally as well. This article is about an agreement with Korea and importing food stuffs. *sniff sniff* I think I smell Monsanto!

Here is the link .... you must read this article!
Food Safety - rigging the game
July 03, 2008 By GRAIN Source: Grain.org

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18076

Happy July 1st!

Around the homestead....

The farmer came and cut the winter rye fields adjacent to us to day. He really kicked up a good bit of dust. Sugar didn't like him messing around so close and was on guard all day!

After the garlic harvest, we needed a ground cover, so my sweetie planted rape seed. Boy, did it germinate fast. I love the gourds. The aquaponics is still turning out great lettuce, even in this heat. The last lonely strawberry flower in a bed of sun scorched plants! Poor thing!

My chicks....

They are still hillareous! That is Hilda on the left. Wings out, ready to leap of the roost. She is such a show off. The Bared Rocks are really pretty. All of them are growing so fast. And Stew(Stud), the rooster, likes to strut his stuff. I heard his first crow Sunday morning. The nine chicks we started with are still with us. 8 hens and 1 rooster... I expected more roosters. I feel we will probably get more eggs than what we know what to do with. Egg recipies anyone?

Did I ever tell you that I love sunflowers?

What would a summer post be with out my beautiful sunflowers!





Sugar says... "The paws are tired today, anyone care to give me a paw rub?"

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