more chickens

Yes...why not add a few more (28 to be exact)?!  We had debated back and forth over committing to buying meat birds for a few months...until finally I just hit the submit button, and done was done.  The reality is simple:  eating the type of food we want is expensive and outside of our budget.  Solution: grow it ourselves.  So here we are...like little squirrels getting ready for winter.  Freezing and canning produce, singing to our chickens in hopes that another starts to lay an egg (still only lexi is laying for us), and brooding some new chicks that will eventually be in our freezer and then into our bellies.  And the fate of these sweet little chicks is known by all and even still they are loved by little hands all day (possibly loved a little too hard sometimes...).

a quick morning run to the post office in our jammies...

receiving lots of love

...and attention from little ones

our "big kids"

tomatoes...and possibly early signs of blight...boo

Where did I read or hear the saying..."we spend all winter dreaming of summer and all summer preparing for winter"...not sure...but so true.