Around the yard...

Things are growing very fast!

monday mantra

belated...

"This too shall pass"

(Persian: این نیز بگذرد‎, Arabic: كله ماشي‎, Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎, Turkish: Bu da geçer) is a proverb indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. From WIKI.

Around the yard...

Monday mantra.

Begin with the end in mind. Go as you intend to go on. It's the accumulation of little things that lead to big things.
Rain will fill a barrel. A seed will grow. Choices become dreams.

Weekend.

This weekend I'm...
...Loving family fire night on Saturdays.
...Going app crazy and finally trying to learn to love my phone/camera/email/internet/music/library/device. Just uploaded camera+, pic collage, and my new favourite time crush the poetry app from the poetry foundation. ...Adoring Pandora and Shazam for taking the guesswork out of what music to listen to.
...Wishing it would rain and green the place up. And then warm up.
...Ignoring the dishes amongst other things in preparation for Mother's Day. Just kidding, sort of.
...Feeling really warm towards a certain 5 year old who wished me Happy Mother's day over a dozen times today and also vacuumed the upstairs yesterday... all by himself.
...Thinking about my Grampa. Happy birthday Grampa!

p.s. This post style is borrowed from SouleMama as in this post. It's like downloading the brimming overfull thoughts that I feel compelled to tell everyone about yet never do; a way to document these busy fleeting times. I want to get better at it. Faster.

Around the yard...

~wordless Wednesday~

Our hens...

So... Wouldn't you like to meet our chickens? We have three.

This is Boss. She is the boss. She lays light brown eggs and is very proud and loud afterwards.

This is Louise. She is at the bottom of the pecking order. She is named for this brave chicken. She lays light brown eggs.

This is Minerva-Louise. She is named after this lovable chicken character. She lays darker brown eggs that sometimes are speckled.

Two days worth of beautiful eggs.

As soon as the snow started to melt and little patches of ground showed thru, we let the chickens free in the yard - we had to - they were just so excited (re: squawking and pacing the gate) to get out of their winter quarters. They are excellent spring (and incredible autumn!) clean up helpers; finding grubs, flies and larvae, slugs and slug eggs, shredding up leaves, eating tiny seeds and weed sprouts... but I shiver to think what they'd do to the gardens if they had access to them all summer. They are so much fun to watch.
And P.S. I use Instagram now... and it's way too easy to post a picture.
(Will update with link as soon as I figure out how... )
Here it is.

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