This summer Papa bought a buch of exotic chickens and other birds to come and live at our acerage. This little silkie chicken wasn’t big enough to live with the other chickens yet so he stayed inside with us for awhile. Silkie chickens are unique in several ways; they do not have normal feathers, theirs [...]

On Tuesday after hmmming and haaaaing about it for just about a year, we took the girls to get their ears pierced. They were troopers, cried a little more than I thought they would (Lena especially) but it had been a really long, hot day and no nap to speak of. So I am not [...]