Brandon's latest creations

Brandon has really enjoyed trying his hand at turning wood over the last few years...now a guy has him making really high-end Pens for him and he sells them for$110 to $150 per pen...if only we knew the right people to sell them to and make all the profit...as beautiful as they are I'd have a hard time spending that on one, but we are glad some people are willing to :)

From sprinklers to this?

So on March 31, it was so warm the kids wanted to run through the sprinklers after school...Hannah informed me that it was 75...I informed her that 75 wasn't all that warm especially with the wind.  But she was hard to convince...so I said ok, if you all do your homework, pick up the dog poop, and pick up the house...and in a flash it was all done...so out to the sprinklers they went...........................................then I went down to the computer to check the weather...it actuall read 57...that's close to 75 it was actually 64 but it "felt like" 57....Then we woke up on April 3 to 7 inches of snow then it just kept coming down...it was 8 or 9  inches when all was said and done...but luckily it warmed up and melted several inches off by the next day...now it's nice again and today (April 13) I mowed the lawn.

Yep, these are my chives before the snow...I can't believe how great they've come up.

Our poor flowering plumb was almost bent in half from the heavy snow...it stands taller than the deck normally.

Our New Addition

Spring is in the air, and I was sad we didn't get to share in the first few weeks of our chickens last year cuz we didn't decide to get them till they were about 4 weeks old so I couldn't resist when I saw they were selling them at the farm and ranch store.  I was excited to add some variety to our little flock.  So when these get big enough to move out to the other coop we'll have fresh chicken...I guess the time has come to eat a few of the other birds...we have 3 Barred Rock so we'll eat a few of those and maybe Millie the Pecker.