That Brings Us to Thursday

If you are here to catch up you might want to scroll down to Tuesday or you'll be reading this all backwards. Although I tend to do a lot of things backwards so that's okay, too.

Thursday Dad left for Pogo Mine again. When he was done there he headed on to Valdez about 400 miles from here (the opposite direction of Prudhoe Bay where he was on Wednesday) to fix a plasma cutter (or something like that). Hopefully he'll be home late Friday night.

Emily and I thought we'd take some photos of the chickens to show you how big they are getting. Yes, Dad bought us batteries for the cameras!!

Here's the Barred Rock laying hen. There are ten, but I suspect two or three of them are roosters. They are very friendly and curious. I already like them way more than the Rhode Island Reds I've had in the past.


All the rest are Bantams that we (hopefully) we get to show at the State Fair in August. This is the Silver Seabright. This will be quite a fancy bird when it is done growing.

This is the Buff Silkie. Probably the most quiet and gentle bird of them all.

Here's the Partridge Cochin. Quite a beak on this one.

This is the Red Cochin. She is also fairly gentle.

Here is the Splash Rose Comb.

This guy looks like a Road Runner, is extremely fast, is the only one that isn't friendly and we had a heck of a time catching and photographing him. This was not a good choice of bird. It's actually pretty mean to the others. Not sure this will be a forever home.

The Golden Laced Polish.

They aren't completely feathered out yet and still have a lot of growing to do, but they are starting to look like much prettier birds now.


Here's a couple of my hanging baskets. Soon they'll get to hang along the fence.

All but the last garden bed has been planted. Somewhere I lost motivation. Don't you just love my petunia planters?

I love the sun and the sun late at night is the best!

I think this was around ten or eleven at night.

Here's my home and front yard that I spend so much time working on. I don't have my official count done yet, but there are around 1000 plants put into those beds. The fences posts will have hooks for my planters.

At midnight we were roasting marshmallows.

This is the good life.