How quickly they grow

Perle our farm dog is almost one year old.

Germany

This is just an aside, but I've started looking into where views of this page come from.  And if it is you who are viewing in Germany, please tell me why.  There are more than double the views from Germany than there are from the US.  I find this odd.  No other country views this blog. Huh.

Found a lot of good photos

I just looked at the files on a memory card from summer.  Check out all these great pics.

Voi-la'

Took less than 3 hours after the nest boxes went in...

Threatening Chickens

I threatened the chickens this week.

I took the advice of a nice lady I met at a hops picking session last weekend. She's a Traverse City native who lives in the jungle of Costa Rica. She lives off her farm including roasting her own coffee and grinding her own chocolate so I figured she must know what she's talking about.

So I told them if we didn't see any eggs soon, we'd be eating chicken soup for dinner all winter long.

Joel is building egg boxes as we speak. So we'll see....

New Addition

Everyone meet Perle. She should be joining our family sometime in Mid June. She is a Great Pyrenees and we are excited to have yet another girl in our house. Adeline, me, Perle, Guinness, 27 chickens and 2500 hops plants; all girls.

EASTER EGGS!

Today we took Adeline to her very first Easter Egg Hunt. It was a huge event. More than 17000 eggs spread over three fields all nicely divided by age so that our 0-3 didn't get trampled by someone else's 7-12.

The (much needed) rain held off until after all the eggs were collected and Adeline had a good time. It took her a few moments to realize what the idea was but then she took off like a shot bypassing less than stellar egg choices for the ones that obviously held superior candy. (I have no idea why she skipped some and went for others.) But she had a great time and so did Joel and I.





Holding Emilee's hand.




It's windy out here mommy!





When does this show get on the road?




This yellow one will do nicely.....

For all you disbelievers out there.

So our backyard may look like this today.

But next to the house we have these images!!!

We also have strange critters living in our trees.

I wanna be just like my mom!!!

We went outside today and played in the snow.  Adeline doesn't like putting all her snow gear on and she definitely resembles Ralphie's little brother "I can't put my arms down!"  However once you get her outside she has a lot of fun in the snow.  We got about 4" of fresh fluffy stuff to play in this morning.  And yeah... she really enjoys making snow angels.

Christmas is Coming!!!

It's very exciting for a little girl when Christmas is coming. A tree in the back getting lights was Dela's first clue that something was happening. But it was hard getting into the Christmas spirit with out any snow. Well that is no longer a problem. Here is that Christmas tree now.
It's the tree in the background not the foreground. We got lots of snow this week and the forecast has snow in it everyday until... well spring I think. As a result we had to get Adeline prepared. So we went out and bought her a snow suit, some boots, hat and mittens and of course a sled. She was a little hesitant at first.
But after a while we got the gist of it.


After a quick "Hi Tree!" in the morning:

It was time to decorate it after we got our pajamas on that night.

Dela now knows with out a shadow of a doubt that something is happening. It's all so very exciting...