Hellloooo

Well. We haven't done a good job of keeping this up! The chickens are fine and cold. Something was raiding the chicken coop in the early fall and one chicken was killed, another hurt. We're down to three chicken who aren't laying many eggs. We're thinking in a few years that we might start with more than 5 chickens, like closer to 10. We also are going to get "smart" chickens. Tall order, I know, but our chickens have no survival instincts and it hasn't served them well despite our vigilance.

Other updates, we're not doing the raw milk coop anymore. It ended up being too much hassle to pasteurize the milk and we always had too much or too little milk. We are also probably going to stop our CSA and just patronize the farmer's market. Some weeks we know we're not going to have time to cook elaborate meals and the CSA sort of stresses us out trying to cook up everything before the next drop. We also like the ritual of going to the farmer's market and visiting with people. The farmer's market has greatly expanded from its humble beginnings and we can easily shop for everything we could ever want or need once a week.

We tried to take a family picture around Thanksgiving but Joe had other ideas. His natural ham-ish tendencies are over the top right now. He seems to take after my Grandpa Jodie who never met a stranger and was game for any adventure. This kid is too funny!