Chickens and Kids

Kids as in children not goats. We would love to get a goat, that is the children and I, but daddy says, "No way, chickens are enough!"

Thanks to Cody's innovative ways, we now have a lovely little chicken coop in our back yard with 5 lovely chickens that we have adopted from our dear friends, Jaime and Eva. They are the ones who started all this, well, Cody has been talking about it for a very looong time now, but if it weren't for Jaime and ordering all those cute little chicks, well...we wouldn't have some of them in our backyard right now. If I'm not mistaken, we have 2 rhode island reds, 1 buff orpington, a black star?? and hmm? I forget the other one?? As you can see, I am still learning. It's great though to observe the curiosity of my son and taking a liking to these amazing birds. He has learned soo much and it kinda just rubs off on ya. The hens will give eggs in about 5- 6 months. Isn't that great! Just think we will have fresh free range eggs very soon.

So, I guess chickens are enough for us ...for now that is. Maybe in a year or two we can convince daddy to let us have a goat ...or two. You know, for milk and cheese and I guess a whole lotta those, smelly breezes. So....our chickens and kids...are doing just fine these days. Just as long as they are fed!

Soon, I will post some of our latest pictures of our 'little farm' in Papaikou.

Oh, and one last thing....Well you know, we had a beautiful full moon shining high in the sky last night and when we got home from dinner at The Ganoza's, Ash and Cody had a clever idea to go hunting in the field behind us despite the fact that it was nearing midnight....the pigs have been leaving their tracks behind for quite some time now. Well, they decided to go hunt some down and they came back in the middle of their hunt with so much excitement because they ran into a few LARGE pigs. Ash shot at one with his bow , but it got away without being able to track it down....so now, the boys are following daddy's instructions to go find it this morning before it rots. Let's see what they come up with...they're still not back yet.

Lovely Wednesday to you all!!