Lovely Eggs

Leela loves helping care for the chickens and getting the eggs every day. Each chicken lays an egg that is unique to her in color, shape and size. We get a good variety. We keep 3 Plymouth Barred Rock, 3 Ameraucana, 2 Red Star, and 1 Rhode Island Red. The rooster was an Ameraucana, but for his fate check out last November.

So we're in the bathroom talking about the best way to fix the skylight and taking pictures of the damage done to the ceiling and wall. David takes a picture of me leaning against the window sill. A weird place to discuss home improvement and an even weirder place to get your portrait taken.

Tie-Dye!

I made tie-dye shirts for everyone in the fam. I like the way they turned out and I think the kids look super cute. It's such a carefree summery look.

Again with the fish tank.

I'm beginning to think the Angelfish is showing her age at 3 years.

April so far

Leela and Sammy sleeping in Boise.


Cooper peeking through Grandma's back fence.


Shrimp Heaven.


A heart shaped potato I planted in the side yard.

Dave's Kidney Stone

OUCH.

Things are starting to fill in nicely with the new plants.



I found a new type of snail in the tank. Typically I have seen common pond snails, but I think this one is a Ramshorn. They have a really nice reddish brown color that matures to a nice purple as they develop. I love the long antennae, they serve the function of a type of gill, though they also have a pallial cavity (primitive lung) like the pondsnails.