A Random Week...

Bear spent many hours staring out the toy room windows at the kitten....sometimes he even rested his chin on the window sill and just stared. 

This is the tiny kitten that Bear is so obsessed with...he is just visible under the bike tire in the highly organized shed.  There were three kittens to begin with but we have not seen the other two in some time.

We started building the chicken yard today, it is laid out and the fence post holes are all dug, Brenton is amazing to dig in this horrible clay soil.  The fence will go up on Monday and the we will start planting various things for the girts to munch on during good weather.  The little coop is from some neighbors who had to get rid of their hens. 

This is the second coop from the same neighbors...it will have some remodeling and reenforcing added to it and then it will go inside the yard for the next group of hens.  We are getting a half dozen Rhode Island Reds from Liam's boss so we can keep the egg supply steady.  The gold hens will probably lay one more year, the neighbors had had them for three years I think.

Ah, the garden!  Bubba helped me lay out some 'raised' rows for the tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.  We put the zuchs where the pumpkins used to be and will add onions on Monday.   The boxes are for the potatoes and we have to get some more soil before we plant them on Monday.  We are also adding one more box so there will be five.  The single boxes next to them are actually the last row for the boxes but they don't go on until the plants have grown. 

Thor, Brownie, and Oreo have been relocated to the old sheep pasture in an effort to take down some of the weeds.  I don't have a picture of Bubba's new garden spot but will get one up soon.  We are grassing in everything that is not planted or designated for something.  I am too old to pull weeds like we did this year.  I was more worn out than after a marathon.  Perhaps if there was a cheering section?

This guy worked like crazy today and I am so grateful he is willing to help with my ideas.  One day he might even decide horses are a good idea.

Dad' sidekick hung in there most of the day and then got out the pvc pipe guns and ran around a lot.

This was a good week a trip to the ortho, lots of swimming, a trip to town that included A and W, Bubba went back to work after having her Wisdom teeth out, and we sold the last of the goat kids.  Bubba has had a rough week though and we are all a bit concerned that she is still having a lot of pain concerning her teeth.  We are starting to wrap up school but will probably do a few unit studies and of course finish any book that is not completed over summer but more formal school will end next Friday.  And since Liam is already working for Matt at the farm it will make his schedule more flexible.  We also worked lambs several times and Liam put a hole in his brand new swimsuit....more to come later.