Well, we made it. Although DIY projects tend to take twice as long as you anticipate and a little more $ than you expected, you still have a finished project that you love and you know you put all your hard work and wishes into. We completed our little deck and although it’s nothing massive or spectacular it is heaven to us. It gets us up off the dirt and and feeling a little less like the low income house on the block.

We eat pancakes out there and we linger for long periods during the morning soaking up the sun and listening to the birds chirp. Speaking of birds. Once you bring chicks into your life it’s hard to not have them. After we lost Max, due to what we suspect might have been “a little hard on the lovin’” injury, poor little spotty was all alone and we just couldn’t stand it. So, off to the feed store we went. And home we came with not one but 4 new baby chics. However, two of these are acutally just egg layers and the other two are meat/egg layers, but you don’t have to eat this kind, they function fine regardless, unlike poor Spotty, whose fate is pre-determined.

The young ones like to get under spotty and keep warm and spotty is being quite the good sport brooding over them. We don’t know the sex of any of these little guys but Patrick says all the roosters will be culled, we’ll see when we get to that point. But, we truly don’t want any ‘un-planned’ little chicks. They are still too small to be outside, too cold still, so they live in a cardboard box in the house (which I should remind folks is only 1,076 sq. ft) with a chicken wire lid we made for them.  They sure are fun and we get sucked into just watching them for long periods of time. They are very comical.

Here’s to homesteadin’……………