Welcome Leonard

The house projects are slowing down,or maybe we are slowing down.  We passed both Electrical and Mechanical final inspections in the past couple of weeks.  Once we pass plumbing then I have to go back to researching what else we need to do to get our occupancy permit.

During this whole project the boys have been so helpful and so good at self entertaining that we treated them to a day at Madam Tussuad's Wax museum in DC last week.  While it was fun and interesting,  Jackson's only comment was that it was creepy. The boys have also been taking advantage of the slow time to work on some scouting merit badges. 

We lost two chickens recently.  The two roosters had been battling it out and the lesser dominate roo was refusing to go into the pen at night.  I told him that if he didn't go in he would get eaten and sure enough,  after 3 nights something got him. There was quite the mess of feathers in the yard. We lost the second to a hawk.  It was one of the smaller leghorns, and one of only two we had that lay white eggs.  We are down to 19 chickens and getting anywhere between 8 and 12 eggs a day,  not bad for winter.

Jackson added another pet to our menagerie.  He saved his money for a very long time and bought all the supplies and a leopard gecko.  He named him Leonard after a character from the show "Big Bang Theory". He is cute...behind glass.  If he gets out I may move back into the RV.