Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Our First Egg


I got an unexpected surprise  yesterday afternoon.  The little girl I take care of some afternoons and my daughter's BFF were out in the yard and found this egg in the pen.  They came in with it hollering.  I couldn't believe it at first.  I mean, it's time, but for some reason I thought chickens just laid eggs first thing in the morning LOL!  No egg this morning, going back out in a little bit to check. 

The girls were so funny because one said she told the other, "Okay, you distract the chicken while I get the egg."  Too cute :)

Monday, September 10, 2012

Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

It's in the 60s this morning in South Alabama and I'm loving it!  Everything is so green and pretty and it is not too hot to go out and get some work done in the yard.  I've been doing some here and there, but I've really been slacking.  The morning sun comes right up over my backyard beds and after a few minutes of working or weeding, you can hardly stand it, but this morning, I spent about an hour and a half weeding one of my beds and planting some seeds. 

I had a little helper this morning.

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We still have just the one and she is spoiled rotten.  She doesn't get let out of her pen a lot because I'm so worried the neighborhood dogs are going to get at her like they did all my others.



I was weeding one of my beds and she was right up in it with me.  I literally had to keep a big stick by my side because she thinks our fingers and toes are worms and goes crazy sometimes.  I don't hit her with it, I just use it to gently push her away. 



It didn't really deter her though.  She wanted to know everything that was going on.

We had another  little helper too.  This little stick bug hanging out on the wall while we were working.


As I was going inside, I realized I had several peas growing on my pea plant.  I am so excited.  I pray they keep at it so we can have some fresh peas.  Yum!



Everyone have a great week!

This post is part of the Homestead Revival's Barn Hop