HippieDog

Spring wishes

One of my girlfriends I've worked with and known for almost 30 years, moved into a new place. Since she'll be living in a condo, she had no place for her wishing well. I'm so glad she thought of us. I LOVE how it looks in our backyard.

I think we found the perfect spot around the "Basket of Gold". They only bloom a very short time, but they are one of my favorite flowers in our yard. It seems each year they multiply. I want to stain the wishing well a little deeper color and plant a few flowers in the water bucket. I still have the "fake" flowers that were originally there. 

I'm excited to get going on the yard work and get everything in shape. However, for some reason I don't mind a few dandelions around the wishing well. I think they look pretty around the basket of gold.  I don't wear yellow, but I sure love it in the yard :)

Jake has been taking good care of his chicken girls and dog girls. He's such a kind heart and loves animals. Each day he announces how many eggs we have---Fanny's eggs are always a favorite. Gotta love those Americauna greenish blue eggs.

We painted the coop! I'm so in LOVE with the color. It's called, "Lush Sage", I think it's perfect. We just have a few more touch up spots and trim to add. Then it's time to landscape around the coop and dress it with some window boxes and maybe a "fresh eggs" sign. I have all these ideas in my head---just need to find the time and energy to get started :)

Hope you're having a great week! Yay! It's the Weekend---ENJOY :)

 

Our First Egg

Our very first chicken egg :) We're pretty excited around here.

We think it's our Barred Rock, LuLu. 

We got the girls March 24th and on August 25th---YEP! Egg time :)

Chicken Coop Love

Jake and Maude

 

Our chickens are eight weeks old! Time for a coop :) 

We've been letting the girls explore around their new space all weekend.

We're still not sure how Maisey will react to the chickens so we keep her in while the gals take a look around. Let's just say I hope the "Herder" comes out in her and not the "Retriever". We'll always keep them separated until we know for sure.

I Love how the coop is turning out :) I can't stop smiling when I see it----

We were going to make the entire coop with pallets but then realized it would be a little too short or tall for our liking. Dan used two pallets on top of cinder blocks. Then he screwed plywood on top of the pallets. This will ensure the coop is predator proof on the bottom end. We also bought a piece of linoleum to put over the plywood for easy clean up.

We framed the coop with 2x4's and then screwed in wood siding. That's as far as we got the past couple of days. 

Next up..... the front door, chicken door with ramp, chicken run and securing the coop with hardware cloth.

I've also been collecting a few swatches for just the right paint color. The exciting part!

Hope you had a Fabulous holiday weekend!

See you soon.......xoxo

Fun things......

  

IFA guy, Jake and baby chicks :)

  

 

Jake's classroom robot made out of everything that can be recycled. How cool is that?

 Made another loaf of Country Oatmeal Bread.

Just what we've been up to the last few months........

In March we got our baby chicks. Well, five chickens and a Turken to be exact. Jake is having the time of his life with these gals. I sure hope none of them turn out to be roosters. 

With the warm weather, it's been nice getting our yard and garden ready for planting.

I'm going to make a garden and flower journal in the next few weeks. Just one little book that will document what flowers I plant, where they are planted and how well they do in sunny or shady spots. I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep a chicken journal as well, my husband doesn't call me a nerd for nothing.

Hope your week is amazing........see you soon :)

The girls.......

I can't believe we finally have chickens. We're learning so much and I'll be sure to share more photos as the ladies get more comfortable with us :)

As soon as I saw our little yellow chick (White Rock), I knew her name just had to be Lola.

"Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl.

With yellow feathers in her hair........"

See you soon!