Happy Fall Y'all

As fall arrives,  we are all getting anxious to get into the house. The electrician is finishing up and we have an insulator and drywaller at the ready.  We continue to spend every weekend hanging siding and still have to do the structured wiring.

The old John Deere riding mower gets harder and harder to use.  The belt on the blades comes off about every 20 minutes and two weeks ago, the whole front cover just fell off.  So we ended up with a fantastic deal on a commercial zero turn mower.Now what used to take 5 hours to mow takes 1 hour. WooHoo!

We are constantly yelling at the kids when they let the dog out and the chickens happen to be out.  Little Yoda thinks the chickens are playmates.  Yesterday I was the one who let the dog out and didn't realize what I had done until it was too late.  Yoda pounced on chicken after chicken when they wouldn't pounce back he'd move onto the next one.  Until he got to the roosters.  One rooster just fled into the forest.  What a chicken!  Gonzo the rooster stood his ground,  made lots of noise puffed up his feathers and flapped his wings at the dog.  Yoda,  rolled over and gave him his belly.

Laboring on Labor Day

Labor Day weekend gave us three full days to work.  We hung lots of siding and did some exterior trim work.  We lost one day to rain, but overall we were pretty productive.

Jackson got the farm stand up and running after school one day and he has had sales each day.  He has been selling eggs and lots of honey.  He even is perfecting his sign flipping.  You know those guys who stand on the sign of the road twirling their signs?  Well,  Jackson is getting good at twirling his honey sign!

We added a couple more chickens to our flock to keep up with the farm stand demand as well as add some more color to the flock. We got barred rock and orpingtons as poullets.  There were a couple of hen squabbles,  but mostly they are all getting along.

The photo is of our front door.  The step, stone and door all look so nice,  we can't wait until we have the siding on to complete the picture.  Notice we wasted no time in moving our cushy chairs to the porch.  It is an amazing spot to watch the storms and the occasional deer that wanders by.