Always Busy

Well I know its been awhile but it's because we have been so busy.  Sometimes it is hard to sit down and take time to blog.  Here is what we have been doing these past few weeks:

So far we have put up 24 quarts of pickles, 17 pints of green beans, 7 half-pints and 5 pints of pickled jalapenos/serranos, and 17 quarts of squash.  This is only the beginning.  Our garden is still going strong, out of control in fact.....

We have watermelons coming on and tons of tomatoes just waiting to turn!! Plus our green peppers are taking off....its so exciting!!!

I never realized how much work a garden really is.  We have spent countless ours planting, weeding, watering, harvesting and now canning.  It is definitely time consuming but well worth it.  The feeling of being self reliant is very gratifying indeed.

So on top of all the gardening projects we have been working on moving around our chickens.  The 3 week old chicks have been moved out of my house and into the brood house outside.  We also relocated our mama hen who is nesting into that house as well. We moved her at night and set her up in a box rather than leaving her in the nesting box that is about a foot off the ground. We separated her and the other chicks with a wire partition.  You can see it in the pictures below.  We also have a new addition as of today with more peeping each hour. We have 18 in the incubator. Here's to hoping they all hatch healthy!

Side note...we have fleas in our house....yay!!!!  Not.  We have been defleaing all of our 9 baby kittens on a regular basis.  They aren't old enough for frontline or any fleas shampoos so they have to be washed in dawn detergent and their fur run through with a flea comb.  Luckily pest control is coming out Friday.  I hate fleas!!!