Summer Morning

The other morning I decided to take the camera with me and the girls while we where doing chores.  First of we have Beth taking care of her chickens, I have never seen  kid love chickens as much as this kid does. They all have names and the first thing she does in the morning is ask if I fed them and got their eggs yet. However, I wish she would keep them in their coop. They poop EVERYWHERE not to mention they like everything in the garden as well. 

Here she is showing Cocoa (she named them) to Emma and telling her to be careful or they will "beak you" if you get to close.

 Then their is our two resident sheep Lulu our Ewe (female for non-sheep people) and Charlie our wether (fixed male).  Lulu is a natural colored sheep and Charlie is a Blue-faced leicester X border leicester cross and his fleece is to Dye for (hahaha, I need to take a pic of his fleece that I dyed up for a sweater for myself, YUMMO). I never realized how friendly sheep are when they aren't n a huge heard.

My goal is to get a few more next year, but we'll see, dh isn't as excited about that as I am ;). I really want to get a few Cormo's.

OK so here is our very sad, sad garden that needs lots of love and care that I just haven't had time to do. I always seem to do really good in the spring, but then by August I've had enough with the weeding. There just never seems to be enough time in  day and that is always last. Anyway hidden in there are lots of cucumbers, tomatoes (50+ plant), squash, I had a watermelon, but the chickens got to enjoy that :(. There also the other normal stuff to peas, beans, onions, spinach, chard,etc.... 

Here is our tomato haul:

 This has been Emma's Breakfast lately. This kid lives for tomatoes, no wonder why I craved them so much when I was preggo with her. I think she is wearing more on her shirt than she is eating.

good thing I did some canning, man I have to remember to take more pix of things, I am horrible at that. I'll get better I promise.

Lastly this is our newest member of our family, another rescue. We named her Purl and she is a sweetheart, except I will be much happier when I can trust her not to pee in my house. She is much better than when she first came, but still really likes the carpet upstairs.As you can see she is very comfortable here :), little stinker.

 Well I guess that is how most our summer mornings go.