Chickens!

We are doing a chicken share with three other families in our neighborhood. Our friends built a coop in their yard and today we went to the County Fair to pick up some 4-H chickens. Below is Heneley, the chicken Sawyer picked out for himself.Meet Huevas & Rancheras
Here is Heneley, Chester, and Rocky (Roquette)
Delilah-Clementine
Rocky (Rocquette)

mid-July garden

Not long after we moved in I convinced Dan to help me build two additional raised beds for the garden.I desperately threw seeds into the garden to see if we could pull off having a garden at our new home the first year. After several terrible spring storms things were looking desperate. I ended up adding some starter plants and things have turned out really nicely.

By May, the garden looked like this and we were getting beautiful micro-green salads.
Now, in mid-July, we have a really beautiful and productive garden.
I am growing beets for the first time - they are beautiful! (Yes, Mom, me and beets- who knew?)
Sawyer was dismayed that the cabbage moths ate all our broccoli the week before we were going to harvest. Since then he has been a bit worried about the "bad bugs that eat the garden" so we spend a lot of time talking about all the good bugs, like spiders and lady bugs that help us out.

He is very proud of our garden. And so am I.


polar bear progress and lady bugs

I can't find any old pics of Sawyer and the zoo polar bear but I promise he is getting taller!Oh, and he loves loves loves lady bugs.