Cooling Off The Animals

People have asked me how we keep the animals cool on hot days.  Lots of people have sent me the sic that is going around Facebook of frozen corn in cupcake tins.  This is what we do...

But first...I think she missed me!  ❦

Binker gets a frozen summer salad of romaine lettuce and granny smith apples.

The Girls dine on a veggie popsicle.

The goats love a good Licorice Lick.

And I put ice cubes in their water bucket.

Catching Those Pesky Flies

Trying out my new flycatcher.  The first night I just put in shrimp tails.

Then I did a little research...jsut a spoonful of stinky cat food.

More Scary Visitors

Not usually scared of snakes but when you open up the little barn where you keep hay and reach down and jsut happened to look sideways...YIKES!

Not to worry it is jsut a harmless garter snake.

Nice And Clean

They love a claean nesting box filled with lemon balm.

Monica Down On The Farm

They could smell the licorice.

So they had a few pieces.

Steve (The Little Free Library maker) wanted to feed them too.

Showing off their tricks.

Monica was so funny.

Jumping for Cheerios.

And Then There Were Three

See anything different?

I call it my jellybean fairy egg.

 Sad news...we only have three chickens left on NottaLotta.

My last girl Inez.

Pappy's Gladys.

Pappys brown chicken whose name changes every time I ask what it is.

They get lots of treats to help with our loss.

Goats Everywhere

We let the goats out the other day for a long graze in the backyard.  They loved it and really didn't do too much damage. 

The Burning Bushes do need a good trim.

Weeds only Boogie!

Good boy trim that bush.

We had started eating lunch and they must have heard all the commotion.  The visited the Cluck-Thru.  That was a huge hit.

The chickens might be short a box of treats.

Boogie wanted to come in to play so bad!

And Then There Were Four

I went to get eggs out of the nesting box and there she was.  Now we have three layers and one slacker.

Where Did That Come From?

I was a little more than shocked...first to get three eggs in one day and then to have one of them to be a fairy egg.  The egg in front of the picture was really long and skinny and about three inches long.  The egg in the back was probably medium size. The fairy eg was about as big as a quarter.  I love a good surprise in the morning.

One Crazy Chicken

Inez loves me.  I know she does.  You ask me how I know this?  Because every night she refuses to sleep in the roost with the rest of the girls.  She sleeps as close to the back door as she can.  She is the first one up every morning and is there to greet me when I let the dogs out.

She was roosting on the top of the grill until I loaded it up with lots of things. Then she moved to the side of the grill.

Then Mark tied down the tarp.  She started out here but I found her under the tarp in the morning. I accidentally kicked her when I went out the backdoor to find her.

I put all the 'chicken shoes' away and made her a nice little nest close to the house for some protection from things that go bump in the night, and it is directly over the drier vent that runs until I go to bed around midnight some nights.  I even put her in it and had a little bedtime story for her about a good chicken that loved her mom so much that she wanted to always be close to her.  But how that wasn't a safe choice...

We even moved the grill farther away from the house.  This is where I found her tonight.  And it is starting to sprinkle.  Wonder where I will find her in the morning?  She is once crazy chicken for sure.