I just woke up to a glorious morning. After another run of 100 degree days, it is 60 this morning. Roosters started crowing at 6am, and there are about a dozen of them. I checked on my baby chicks. I now have 2 incubators set up in our game room. Next to them, I have two boxes each with newly hatched chicks. Then, on the floor, I have two 32 gallon bins with the bigger chicks. There are heat lamps on all of those. The room is now too toasty for my liking. We have decided to expand our chicken and quail size and see how much we can have full grown in the spring. We could be talking hundreds ;) I am super excited.
We have trimmed our animals down a bit. After the incident with the donkey, his original owners have taken him back. Also, we decided to sell our Nubian goat. I was sad, but he went to a great family. He was just another mouth to feed and he was getting too big for his britches around our place. Then, we got 3 new Boer does. One is a few months old and the others are about 2 years old. I want to say that makes 14 does!!!
My kids are still sleeping. It is 7:19am. They never sleep this late. It is nice and quiet right now!
School is going great. It is almost too easy! Hunter had his first science and history/geography tests yesterday. He scored 100% on both. Mind you, the material is very elementary...I wonder if even too much so for him. I can say he reads really well!!! I like that I have the opportunity to do whatever I want with their curriculum. Hailey is doing great, too. I wish I had started earlier with her. I am ashamed to say, we didn't work on her letters, sounds, or numbers until we started this. We just didn't. She is catching on really quickly.
We are looking at new trucks. Well, Brad is looking at trucks. I love my expedition. He says a truck is a must-have for the farm. I get that. I am disappointed, but it does make sense. My car is on it's last heave-ho, so we are going to try to trade it while we can.
I am so excited about this time of year and the next 3 months. I pulled out our fall decor and thought about setting up a couple of weeks ago, but I think today is the day! IF, I can find the time. 7:34 and they are still sleeping :)
