Country Breakfast

At my house everyone likes for me to make fried eggs for breakfast; but, since it is a very time consuming breakfast I do not make it too often. I always feel like a restaurant; "I'll take 4 eggs"..."Where is the jelly"..."My eggs weren't enough, please make me two more".....

However, today is a lazy day and since we have an abundance of fresh eggs; and since my new biscuit recipe is "to die for"; and since I had bacon in the fridge.... we had a great breakfast!

Weeds Weeds lots of Weeds

Today Elizabeth and I are using a wheel barrel to haul all the weeds from the garden.

Once the wheel barrel is full we then take it over to the chicken pen;

And toss the weeds over the fence.

The chickens are having a blast; and so is Elizabeth.

I always loved getting to ride in a wheel barrel when I was a kid.

The High Cost of Heartburn

For the last several days Jonathan has been suffering from a pain in his lower chest area. The pain was present both day and night and caused a great discomfort. So, today we went to the doctor; diagnosis...heartburn. Heartburn? This seemed so odd since Jonathan is lucky to eat once a day because of his school schedule; but the doctor said not eating normal daily meals can cause heartburn.

The doctor put Jonathan on a bland diet, for 2 weeks, and told him to take Maalox before each meal and right before bedtime. Plus he gave him a prescription for Nexium. When we went to the pharmacy to have the prescription filled the cost was going to be $125.00 for 20 pills! Wow, was that ever a shock! $6.25 per pill!

After much thought I decided that half the battle would be won by taking the Maalox and eating the bland diet.

So instead of purchasing the very high priced prescription pills I decided to try an over the counter generic version of Prilosec.

Hopefully Jonathan will see signs of improvement by tomorrow.

Cute Little Puff Balls

A few weeks ago I began saving eggs that I knew to be fresh and prepared them for hatching.

Then I dug out our incubator and cleaned it up.

We put in a digital thermometer and began recording the temperature; unfortunately after less than 3 hours the incubator began loosing heat and then we had no heat at all. I think the heating coil went out and so we are now without an incubator.

So, Pat called a friend who agreed to hatch our eggs in trade for half of the chicks.

And today we picked up some of the newly hatched baby chicks.

They are the cutest little puff balls!

Burrrrrrrrrr.....it's COLD

The weatherman said we would be getting some winter weather today and he was right!

There isn't much snow; just a lot of high winds.

The Egg Count

Well, today was the big day; box number one contained 4 eggs. Box number two contained 4 eggs.

Box number three contained 2 eggs.

And box number four contained 6 eggs.

The hens chose boxes filled with the grass Elizabeth had gathered for them;

And she was so happy to have all the eggs inside the chicken house!

The egg basket looks so nice filled with fresh eggs!

The Planting Has Begun

Now that the chickens are a safe distance from the garden area Elizabeth and I were able to plant our potatoes. We have been slowly hoeing the weeds and breaking up the dirt to get ready. I dug the holes and Elizabeth placed the potatoes into them.

Next we watered them really well.

Tomorrow the weather is suppose to turn cold so I am glad to have our "outdoor" activities completed for now.