Boy am I ever tired of driving an hour away for all our social events and church meetings. I never thought it would take this long for us to move-- we started the process in August of 2011. The house is going up pretty fast. If it follows the schedule, we will be in April 30-- we'll see. We got a great price on the lot and the house, but the builders have really not been good to work with. There are a couple things they changed, but overall the houseplan and lot are awesome and so is the view and we can't wait to move.
The goats have been pastured at our neighbors up the road, but they kept getting out so we brought them home after taking forever to catch them and then listening to their bleating afterward-- we decided to sell them. They were extremely cute and the kids really had a good time with them especially since we had them right here in our yard, so it was sad to see them go-- but until we have a fully fenced yard with a strong pen to contain them-- it just wouldn't work out. Maybe next year if the city lets us.
I am about 23 weeks pregnant. It has been fine. I feel good, I have plenty of energy. I have been slowly catching up on the housework and we even got a good chunk of the van cleaned out today- most notably the hay we had been hauling over tarnation for the goats.
The first soccer games of the season start on Saturday-- 5 games every Saturday for us. The kids love it and look forward to it and I like watching them and being outside.
The chickens survived the winter, the wild windstorm that took out our 50 ft. cottonwood tree along with the deck and all the other crazy weather this winter. We collect about 6 eggs a day, one from each chicken. The eggs are really good, much better than even organic store bought eggs. The kids take care of them religiously and they really love them. It has been a good learning experience for us all. We do need to build a better coop though especially since they won't be able to roam in our new yard until we have it fully fenced.
I wonder what our neighbors will think of us!! One of our neighbors homeschools and has chickens so at least they should like us!!
2 comments:
You crack me up.. you neighbors will love you..chickens and all!! Hope the building continues to move as planned.. it will be done before you know it and you will be so happy!! :)
Your kids are getting such great life experience with all your animals.
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