We wanted to find a few hobbies to keep us busy this summer, so we decided to start our own garden (we'll see how green my thumb really is!) and to raise chickens to help feed Luis's egg addiction...no joke, he eats a dozen eggs in just a few days. It's hard to keep up!
So we began with baby chicks, that grew much faster than we had planned, the time to get them out of the house came quick! We couldn't decide if we wanted to just buy a coop, or make one ourselves. Of course it would've been much easier to just give someone else our money, but nooooo, we had to spend 3 weekends in the mud and rain to construct this chicken coop that was supposed to be small and cheap. Well, instead we ended up with a 10ft tall chicken palace...those chickens better be happy and produce ALOT of eggs....
He loves to pick up sticks from the ground and try to bring them in the house, but mean mommy makes them stay on the deck with his dirty boots.
Today we had to take advantage of the nice sunny weather and get our posts for the fence cemented in. Sol naturally likes to stomp in mud and puddles, so the thought he needed to stomp in the cement....didn't work out so well.
My sweet little boy. I've taught him when we're outside and his hands get dirty, to wipe them on your pants, so he will try and wipe his hands on everyone else's pants!
We've found out that chickens aren't the smartest animals, pretty dumb actually but Sol loves them. We wanted to create a fun little farm for Sol to grow up on where he can put on his cute little red rubber boots and go feed the animals. What's next...maybe a goat or two?
I'm totally jealous!! Someday I want a chicken coop and hopefully a pygmy goat or two to wander around. Rob and I talk about it occasionally. Though we couldn't really think of any other animals to put on a mini farm. And we disagree on the fate of the chickens. I just want them for egg laying! He has other ideas =(
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