Well, where to begin. I believe the last blog I posted was regarding our dearly departed Brownie. Lots of things have changed since then.

Our chickens have finally come home to roost. They are free-ranging our yard and loving it. Our Dominique Hen is setting on a large clutch of eggs (we believe that the little trollop went visiting the game roosters next door as we have no rooster of our own and these eggs are definitely furtile). They are due to hatch around the 1st of August. We are getting fresh eggs daily now from our 5 other hens. We have also added guinea's to our flock. Pinky and the Brain, beautiful little white 12 week old keets.

We brought our bunnies home. Alice, our white NZ lady,  had 6 beautiful babies we still have two. A replacement buck and doe. She did loose her second litter during the horrendous heat wave we had. We have bought quite a few more rabbits and sold quite a few as well. We are currently awaiting three new litters of Rex rabbits. We hope to build up our rabbitry for both meat and show. There are those that do make it the othe pet arena as well.

As for farm hands, my husband is doing well, he is working for the local candle factory. Though this last week they have been on slow down. They plan on picking up this coming week to prepare for the christmas season. Claire has decided not to homeschool for the moment and knowing our daughter we have decided not to force her. She will be attending second grade at Tharrington Elementary school here in Mount Airy. Our Bekkah has decided that she would rather remain in the care of her mother and has moved back to Illinois. Then there is Morgan. 20 month's old now, 101% boy. He is at the explosive learning stage. We can understand a lot of what he says now, though once he can talk really really well I am afraid to know what he is saying sometimes.

We spent 2 weeks away from home, had someone watching our animals, but our garden became overgrown with weeds. Today finally I was able to get in and get a lot of the weeding done. We weeded around the tomatoes and cukes, spread old hay around to help control weed growth and hold in all the compost tea every one got a healthy drink of. Used the tiller over the barren spots to get ready for fall garden planting. Hopefully we will be able to finish up tomorrow with all the recovery and get back to the business of growing.

Well, that's most of the latest. Will post more tomorrow regarding some of the other happenings. I have some writing to get done for work.

Blessed Be!!

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

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