I hate moving

Sorry no pictures for this entry. They would scare anyone with the disaster we have going around here. Les hasn't packed anything in the garage and won't be home until next Monday when we are supposed to get everything loaded. I told him I would pack it for him...to the dump! He didn't think that was very funny. I am getting rid of a lot of stuff because I am just sick of all the stuff. I am praying this isn't going to be a huge mess but I am not feeling good about it.

We have began the countdown. Lafe is helping dad get ready for "training" which consists of Les being at Camp Williams, 10 miles away. Here is the kicker: he can't come home for three weeks! Another brilliant plan by the Army. I wonder how many divorces can be chalked up to Army stupidity?

Lafe made a tape "cake" for dad to take.

(Why I can't get the photo placement right I will never know!!) See to pictures for bottom paragrah. Duh!

I am having quite the time with my chickens. One has an eye infection (Goldie) and she and her friend (Tabbitha) are too big for the box in the kitchen but I don't have any coop space to put them until they get a little bigger and can establish their place in the pecking order. These two are glued together and freak out if they are separated.

We are trying to get everything ready to move. This is so exhausting! I will be glad when it is over. We finally got all that is going to be done to the house done. Now packing is the main concern. I havent' figured out how I am going to get all the animals there yet.

Les sold his motorcyle so we could put money down on a house. I am really glad I just happened to take a few pictures of him and Lafe on it before it was gone. I felt bad that he had to do this. Hopefully he can get another one when he gets home.

We also finally sold the catering truck and that is a relief! Now we don't have to worry about hauling that.

Marge is probably Mark

Sorry these pictures are all jacked up! The first ones are at the bottom and they go up as the story goes down the page!

In Feb we got 5 chickens. I stated out to get 2 and the lady that I bought them from told me to get more because all of them usually don't make it. Well they did. Plus I have added 3 more to the flock.

Here is the first batch. Emily, the white fluffy one is a silkie. She has crooked feet but she is a great pet. The other 2 are a golden laced wyandotte and a barred rock. We have 2 of each of these. Prudence, Marge, Gladis, and Twinkydink. Most of these names come from a book called "Tillie Lays an Egg". More about that book later.

Next we got Matilda, or Tilda as she has come to be known. She is the brown one all alone. She is a speckled sussex. She was our house chicken because the others picked on her, but she prefers the rabbit hutch outside.

Next I got Blackie. She was hatched at school and had not absorbed all of the yolk in the egg. I won't go into all this but after doing some research we cut it off of her. She was about half the size of the others that hatched. I took her and fed her with a dropper every few hours. I did this for a week and then the lady who I bought my chicks from told me to put a an austerlope chick in with her. This was the best idea ever! She is now eating and drinking like normal.

Now that the first chickes are bigger it looks as if Marge is really Mark and she will have to go back to the farm where she came from! It makes me sad. She is such a beautiful bird. Here are some pictures of Lafe and his chichens.

Okay, I said I would never have a blog because:

A. I hate reading about people telling you how wonderful they and their families, home, bank account, etc. are.
B. I don't care what you are having for dinner or what you are doing every second of the day.
AND...
C. Because Iwould lose interest very fast in updating it.

Why I decided to finally take the plunge:
A. We are moving again and I have never documented our homes and the work we have done on them.
B. I have just discovered chickens and have had to learn all kinds of wonderful things about them, and in doing so I have discovered things that could actually help people out. Then I realized I may have other info on food storage, crafts, gardening, etc. that may help others out too.
AND...
C. Because Les is going to Iraq and this is how I can update everyone at once.

So starting tomorrow I will try and get in the habit of updating this thing on some sort of regular basis!