Awesome Ashley and Bad-ass Brandon are two of the coolest cousins a guy could ask for! But lucky me for having Awesome Ashley over to our house for a bit this week! It’s been good to catch up, even if that means falling behind in some other areas, such as some of the household chores like blogging!
Today we all went out for breakfast and came home with five chickens! Two are for granny, though I get to raise them till they are laying! (I hope she don’t want two more to take to Idaho with her for the summer! I need some for my family too! Two chickens are for Ashley! She has loved the whole concept of them and seen what it is like to have them around, and how painless they really are, as well as gone egg collecting with me, so she is starting off with two to give her some eggs come autumn. Granny got me one chicken as a raising fee on the two she bought. That’s fine, especially since she bought food for them all. Apart from Ashley’s one Ameraucana, we all bought beautiful Silver Wyandot. They are black and silver and look like they will grow up to be very beautiful birds who lay brown eggs.
Jordan got all excited when he got home from school because Ashley called him in to see what arrived in the mail today. Jordan put an order in the day before yesterday from an online hatchery, and felt pretty excited with himself for getting half a dozen birds for a mere $14. What he missed was the $43 shipping fee! He FREAKED! He freaked and his mother cancelled the order. So when Ashley called him in and told him that there was an additional $60 fee for expedited shipping he REALLY FREAKED! It gave us all a great laugh! Well, almost all of us. Jordan not so much.
Oh well, I am pretty excited about my shiny new chicken! As for Jordan, he is down to the hardware store with granny and Ashley right now getting a new bit for the horses to use. They seem to behave a lot better under a snaffle bit, so the boys are spending about $17 each for the bit for added safety. It is a very responsible thing for them to do. Now lets see how long before they figure out that they need two snaffle bits, and how many fights having only one will incur.
As for little Kiry, she found her step stool today, and ran in as excited as can be, grabbed Katrina, and told her what she had found. Her excitement continued for about half an hour. I think she knows what she is missing because of her height, or lack thereof.
Did I mention that the boys slept in till after 6:30 this morning. I awoke to think that I had not heard them get up, so I checked their room, and there they were. So I got to give them a ride to school. Fun!