what we have been doing....

 

We have been doing so darn much around the estate that its easier for me to show you in pictures instead of writing it all out....so here we go:

 

The cucumber seeds that my fellow Angel "Sandy" sent me, have exploded: 

 

 

Our first attempt at corn has been okay, and it has come in nicely

 



 

Until this past Tuesday night when we were hit with about 6 inches of rain in an hour and had some flash flooding through the garden. My Uncle is the oracle of gardening and said not to worry that it would stand back up on its own. It is to a point, but we do have some stalks that are just simply ruined:

 

 

Our neighbor let their cows out in this pasture behind our house, and they came up for a visit:

 

The boys baseball team won the "south division" and went to the championship game. but sad to say we lost. However, our coach is also the coach of the All-Star team and asked NW ( the oldest) to play on the team. We go to the All-Star tournament for 9-10 year olds in two weeks, and have been practicing 4 out of 7 days.

 

Between baseball and gardening, Senior built the Jersey Giants a new coop and we got it painted:

So thats been our week...just been busy, busy , busy because its that time of year for us around here. Hope you are all doing well....

-JUGM

our first ever...

Went to do my daily cleaning of the coop, feeding, and watering. Looked over in a corner and OMG!

Our first egg!

I know, I am such a chicken nerd to be celebrating our first egg. But it makes me feel like a proud mother and gives me a sense of accomplishment.

 All we need now is a few more and then we can cook up an omelet .ha ha ha!

The Estate Poultry Project..An Update

Well our babies hatched. And on Monday we picked up 10 of the little darlings...so cute and fuzzy at this age.





This little brown one NW Immediately adopted as his own and named it " Muddy"

 Mr. Farmer gave us this old bookcase. Senior remodeled it a bit and turned it into nesting boxes for the new girls we bought. The only thing he has to do is add a board across the front in order to keep the straw in for the nest.

 

 

Speaking of our girls, these are a set of Rhode Island Red Pullets that we picked up at a local feed store. The boys named them : "Elsa, Nellie and Lucy"

 

The boys are being very "hands on" with the new ladies:

Nellie seems to like her new run. We put in toys for them, like this old saw horse which is now a roost: