October in Minnesota~

With Halloween coming Elias has been practicing his mean sounds and faces.




The sweetest apples I have ever tasted...the season was so perfect for apples this year!

We had fun outside raking up the leaves last week (October 21)







Playin the drums 04 October


Honey has stopped running away! She is a great dog! We all love her.

Making houses out of cushions, pillows and furniture is one of Elias's favorite passtimes~

The Poultry Palace

I recently built the addition onto the "Poultry Palace". The highlights include 3 more nest boxes, two more roosting beams, fully insulated with 1" extruded polystryene. To top it off I installed a green roof. It truly is a palace.

September Fun!

A Visit from two beautiful women Melanie and her mom Carrolle~





Papa built a big shed in our back yard!



Elias the big Pre-School boy!

Summer Lovin' Had Us a Blast,

Elias and Uncle Bret


Jackson Hole Parade


Relaxing at Grammy Lammy's

Elias loved holding my cousin's new baby~

Helping in the Garden

I taught a children's organic gardening class for the city this summer. It was the best thing I could have done! Elias was my best helper.


He knows exactly what to do with plants. Eric ordered these plants for our yard. As soon as Elias saw them he took them outside and planted them~ as you can see.

Golf Ball Size Hail

Sojourner Truth , Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rachel Carson, Harriet Tubman, Pocahontas

* Update *
We now have 6 healthy baby chicks. And they are ADORABLE! Elias loves to feed and water them. It has been a lot of fun. Now we are hatching Canada Geese eggs. A Canada Goose mother was killed yesterday and the nest of eggs was brought to my house. They are now incubating.


Our first two chicks! Hatched May 7th 2009~


Elias wants to crack all the eggs open and "get em out".
There are still several cracking their way out!
More pics to come.

Baby Chicks ...?

We (momma and elias) are incubating chicken eggs.
They are due to hatch May 6th.... aka Wednesday! We have been waiting patiently for almost 3 weeks (chicken gestation time). Turning the eggs several time daily, monitoring the tempeture and humidity. Hopefully our efforts will bring us some good hens (but mostly a great learning experience).




So, soon we will have 7...


So I need help! Naming my fine ladies.
Our grown hens are named:
Sacajawea
Rosa Parks
Amelia Earhart
Oprah

And we can't forget those who have died. RIP Ladies:
Mother Theresa
Hilary
Susan B. Anthony (My favorite hen)
Joan of Arc
Anne Frank
Elenore Roosevelt


So, I am taking nominations for names. Please post suggestions or email them to me.

My first hatch will be Sojourner Truth

The down side of hatching our own eggs is that we may get some roosters. Not sure what I am going to do with them. I only keep girls. Any one want roosters?

Earth Day Events~

Eric lead a group of cyclists in a community effort bike ride for Earth Day~
"I hope this event will promote cycling as a viable alternative for getting around our community" Castle Check out our local paper