• Monday, March 24, 2008 - Easter, chickens, goats and garden

We had a really nice Easter.   We didn`t go to church tho.   We are still looking for a church to attend.  After what I went though with my last church, I am not in a big hurry.   Thats just me.  I was hurt really bad.  I know God will lead me to the right one.  I just don`t feel led right now.  But anyway, we still enjoyed the day.     The kids hunted for Easter eggs and had plenty of candy.  Yikes! I  will pay for that tomorrow evening. I was asked about my garden.  Well, with all the rain and cold weather, all I have out is a small rows of peas.   I usually don`t start planting until Mothers Day.  I was hoping to get a couple of rows of beans and corn out by the 100th day of the year, but doesn`t look like that will happen.  The ground is just so wet.   I just don`t know how well the tractor and plow would do to plow the ground. My dd1 asked me today if I would sell eggs.  One of the ladies she works with, told her, she would buy as much off of me that she could.  I guess, white eggs are  going up to 2.99 a dozen and brown eggs are more.  I am going to sell mine for 1.75 a dozen.   I just think 3.00 a dozen is just to high for eggs.  But I know food has went up.   I keep telling Sam we really need different nesting boxes.  I hate the metal ones we have.  They are just really hard to clean.  Really I need a bigger hen house.   I have six roosters out running loose.  I had a total of seven roosters and 14 hens.  They were just tearing my hens up.   I figure if something gets them it really wasn`t that much of a loss.   But I am going to give the roosters to my mother-in-law.  I don`t have the time to butcher them myself.  I will be placing an order in May for meat birds anyway.  When they are fatten up I will butcher them.  DD2 and DS is raising some for the fair.  I don`t remember if I mentioned about going Friday and Hannah picking out her goat for the fair.   She picked out a little doe to show.  She is so cute.   We will be getting her sometime in mid-April.   Hannah can`t wait but has a lot of work cut out for her getting a stall ready.   We will have to keep her up in a stall because we don`t want to let her eat grass.   This is going to be a big learning experience for us all.  lol    Well it is 2:10 am and I have to be up at 4:45 to get hubby up for work.  So I am off to bed.

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