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August 4, 2009

Three week old chicks and their painted new home

What have we been up to? Well, we've had a string of folks come through (our friend Josh, who you might remember from our Utah Days; Anna's friend Alan from high school) -- both were in the midst of road trips and we hope we were able to make their stop-overs enjoyable.
We've been sharing our office (and our laundry room when we had company) with ten chicks (birds, not babes), and we're anxious for them to go live in their real house. It's almost done, but today Anna put the first homey touch on the coop.
Here's a great view.

And from above you can see it hasn't visibly progressed much from where we left it before, but at this point it's something of a timing puzzle -- we need to move it into position to slide in and bolt down the floor of the run, but we can't do that until it's painted (see! It's painted now!), and we can't finish the run enclosure until the floor is in place...
So, like I said, it's one step at a time.
This will be the "Home Sweet Home" picture for the girls once their run is ready.
There's a lovely red trim coming -- let the white dry, first! :)

This view gives you a good look at another element as yet unfinished -- the roof. We're working on that, but rest assured, it'll be done. :)

And what do you get when you have a dog that wants to express more of his dalmation lineage? Well, when it's a black dog around white paint...
Oy.
Who, exactly, will be moving into the pretty painted coop? I'm glad you asked -- here's a video of the three-week-olds. They're in that not-so-cute transition between chicks and chickens. I swear I heard one of them cluck instead of cheep the other day:

Posted by Jordy on August 4, 2009 7:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

August 26, 2009

Heading into the Part of the Year That is Not Summer

Things seen around town-grape trucks, butternut squash and Gravenstien apples, yellow leaves floating in the River, kids with backpacks on...fall is here. Fall and I have a strange relationship-I hate it at first because it means summer is over, and then we settle into a grudging truce.

We celebrated Dad's 60th this past weekend with a huge surprise birthday dinner at Negri's-we had the whole back room. I made him a big cake, and we had about 30 people. He was totally shocked. The next day Jordy and I threw a party at our house for about 25 people to celebrate the birthdays of Misha and Jeanny and Lisa. Jennifer came over and helped me cook-we had a ton of fun!

Chickens are huge now, and all moved out into their coop. They're all pushing 2lbs now and fully feathered-we're at the start of week seven. They begin to lay at about 20 weeks, but we might get fall molt beating us to the punch before we can get any eggs. Jennifer and I have decided not to induce artificial laying with lamps, so we might be going until the first warm days of spring to see eggs. We're not really in a hurry and the girls are all so tame-they enjoy being held and sitting on laps, so we're content just to let them be.

School has started. Jordy is taking programming and trig. I'm now rising at 5:30am five days a week to work out-I have body conditioning and tai chi. Jennifer and I started our sewing class and it's a ton of fun-it is really nice sewing only for myself for once. We are planning fabric shopping trips into the City since we are charged with making one, complex final project, and we want cool fabric.

I am in the process of hiring a new assistant at work, and getting ready for the crazy part of Memory Walk season, which is September and October. Jordy is going to Toronto in September for work and I'll be home and in charge of the farm. We are off to Utah for Labor Day weekend and very much looking forward to seeing many old friends from school. Jennifer and I are getting ready to put up a ton of tomatoes and make pickles, as our gardens are overflowing. I might be able to hang onto to summer for a few weeks yet!

Posted by Anna on August 26, 2009 5:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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