21 November, 2011

Random Things...


Warm things like "the sun that beats down on earth every morning, warming all God's creatures"

Patient things like "a cat waiting for a bird to come closer to the bottom of the tree"
things such as "boys picking out wood blocks to chop"
Wild things like "crazy boys with an ax"
Investing in things like "a cow that needed some fattening up"
Exciting things like "Mom going shopping and coming home with a whole stack of new books"

Sweet things like "Mom transferring geraniums" :)
Cute things like "my brother"
Busy things like "Jared sweeping the walk"
Pretty things like "leaves turning color"
Outstanding things like "God's bright blue sky"
Funny things like "Joanna sitting on the windowsill washing windows"
Neat things like "Jessica making pie dough"
Finished things like "twelve pies ready to be filled"
and things like "Mom making cookies"
Preparing  things like "getting invitations ready"

I have another picture that I would like to add next for "Terrible things" but I think it is best not to, cause it isn't the thing that everyone would like to see. Last night the boys shot off some fireworks and we forgot that Benji was here. Benji  is one of our boarders and he hates fireworks!  Last night at 9:00 right when we are all getting ready to head to bed, I went out to put the dogs up for the night. Looking into Benji's cage ( a rottweiler )  I found that he wasn't there. Looking around I noticed a whole in the chainlink at the end of the run. ( He usually chews out when he hears fire works) I called him and I heard a bark come from the chicken pen. Instantly my heart sunk, knowing how he loves killing chickens. I ran out to the chicken pen to find him standing on the inside of the gate wanting out. I opened the gate and left him out. Glancing over the chicken yard I saw the slaughter. I was so sad, knowing that we had just got these young chickens and we just butchered off the old ones, and Dad and Mom were so happy with the new flock and everything. I ran in and told everyone and we all ran out to find that out of 32 chickens only 12 were left. They were scattered everywhere! Well the only thing we could do was save the meat since they were still fresh, so the knives were pulled out and we all got busy. I think we have all had our share of chicken butchering for this year!!

19 November, 2011

The Day We Told The Chickens To R.I.P.

As you all know, we didn't have chickens for quite a while. Dad then got five from the neighbors to turn his compost for him. Well, anyway to make the story short, from there we just kept getting more and more. Last week we got a large flock of older hens just for the freezer. Wednesday, we all went up the road and got another 23 chickens and 2 more roosters. They're still young and are still laying eggs, so the old ones had to go!

Jared, our chicken catcher. :)

Nice try, Joshua!! Keep it up! :)


 Got one!
Mom and I hard at work...

Justin posing with his unclothed chicken.. haha

Between all five us, we had 15 chickens and 2 roosters butchered in no time.

Haha, you can tell by our expressions that some chickens can be pretty tough!




Roosters can be REALLY tough! lol

Our new flock of chickens.