Is This Blog On?

Where did the time go? I never even finished posting pictures from our summer vacation and now it is almost February. There have been times I felt like posting, but the job sometimes felt unsurmountable - just trying to find the pictures or get them from the phone to the computer... (too many semi-compatible devices with various storage issues) - not to mention trying to be witty or not-too-overly sentimental or some other thing. Being prone to procrastination, depression and perfection (ahem, genetics), I simply pushed it off. But I need to carry on! This blog is a record of our lives, since we no longer have photo albums on the shelf!
So without further delay, I will just jump back in with some pictures.

1. A boy and his cat. Alternate title: we had to transplant these apple trees to make room for the garage conversion project. I think I am giving them a 50% survival chance. Any birds nearby have less of a survival chance. (P.S. The leaves were scavenged from a neighbor. We go over right before their gardener comes to wipe away the evidence that they have a deciduous tree.)

 2. A boy and his bike. Just because it is cute.

3. Yum. Alternate title: Fluffy laid some eggs again (finally!). Toast (toasted in my new toaster! Thanks, Jenn!), smashed (I wanted to write "smooshed" but apparently that is not a word) avocado and some green onion with a "Fluffy" egg. Oh, and lime-ade courtesy of our lime tree.

 

3. Speaking of chickens and garages - in order to make room for that conversion (which apparently involves trenching along all sides of the garage) AND a free hot tub that someone has decided he needs, the chickens had to move out of their space. And thus they needed a new coop. Enter: Titanic 2: chicken edition. (A work in progress.)

5. Chickens! (Carmel and Thea are still on egg-laying hiatus.) At least the Pixie tangerines (which are hardly pixie size) are almost ready.

 

Okay, that is all for now from my phone pictures.