simple made special

peep show!

if having your own flock of poultry is wrong, I don't want to be right!

aren't they beauties! 

EDITED: more info!

I never really finished this post, and there has been many inquiries! Husband and I had decided to wait until next year to do chickens, but then we went to the IFA and saw the chicks, and I laid down on the ground and cried, kicked and screamed until he agreed to let me get them. Yeah! Here's some quick points of interest:

• we have six, so I'm hoping to average 3-4 eggs per day

• 3 of them will lay greenish to bluish eggs, 2 lay dark brown eggs, and one lays pinkish brown eggs

• you don't need a rooster to get eggs, they just don't get fertilized

• chickens fed a mixture of laying mash and the bugs and greens ours will get from living in the backyard provides a much more nutritious egg. You can also provide them with flax seed to enhance the eggs with Omega-3's

• eggs equivalent to what we will get cost $4/doz. at the health food store. (but ours will be fresher) By my calculations, they'll have paid for themselves in the first 6-8 months of laying. So when you consider all the free entertainment they provide, it's not a bad deal.

•husband is hard at work on their henhouse, it is a spacious chicken castle of his own design and is my back-up plan for housing if we go broke.

We love them!

family picture

Ta flipping dah

It's 99.9% done. Just need a little trim and a window base. And toe kick.  So far I love everything. The big sink is great, the lazy susan is wonderful, and the big drawers are so nice. The dishwasher drops open and the drawers are right there to hold everything, it's so much faster than bending and then turning to upper cabinets.

We're lacking a little decor, but I'm nervous to commit, and I'm just enjoying it this stage right now. Huzzah!

weirdest easter ever

ate just a few jelly beans, held a gun (huh?) and later viewed some medium-core pornographic images shared by a relative. 

yep, we'll be skipping this holiday next year.

I know you are but what am I

on a recent trip to the dentist, the assistant girl asked me a little about myself. After I answered a few of her questions she said, 'oh so you're a DINK' and I said 'ohh kay?' and she proceeded to explain that I was a person with Double Income No Kids. She was pretty proud of herself and made a few snide remarks. I asked her if there was an acronym for the self employed with limited fertility.

She looked embarrassed and busied herself with the instruments. I think people with these types of occupations have to have bits, like comedians. Lines they repeat over and over to different crowds. I like to think she went home and thought up a new bit.

it seems like we pass a lot of judgment on others regarding offspring. so many. so close. none? so soon. what took them so long? another! they put there kid in that shirt?

it's something I'm vowing to quite worrying about. will you join me?

consider yourself warned

   

My cousin Jill turned me onto a great blog called thrifty chicks. They have a great way of putting a positive, eco-friendly spin on shopping at thrift stores, and offer the kind of reassurance some people need to get themselves inside a thrift store. As for me, I've enjoyed them for years and reading this blog just made me feel smart.

I recommend it to those of you who need a little encouragement to step out of your normal routine and go to a smelly junk store. I won't lie to you, in my years of scouring thrift stores, I've never hit the jackpot in a fiscal sense (as in paid 50 cents for something worth far more), but I have managed to haul home a few treasures: