The boys helped me turn over the garden soil in preparation of planting. I'm a little late this year, but I'm glad I didn't plant as early as usual, since we had such a late snow.
Baby W watched from the shade of the porch. I'm so glad he loves the outdoors!
We started a few seedlings in the house, but most of our crops will be directly sown into the garden.
After getting beat up by the neighbor's cat, poor Miss Zoe had some really bad abscesses that had to be treated. A really deep one on her belly had already ruptured, but she had one on her back that the vet had to drain. She is such a sweet old girl, and is taking her antibiotics very well.
He's almost half a year! Can't believe how fast its going by! He is such a sweetie! Mommy is still his favorite person, but he's pretty happy with Daddy or his brothers and sisters playing with him too.
He sits unassisted now, and is beginning to scoot a little bit when he's on his belly. He weighs a good 21.5 pounds now!
We've had so much rain last week that there were some major flash floods in the area. Here are some pictures taken just down the road.
Our big boys are becoming quite the little bikers. We've had to upgrade their bikes a couple of times in the last year as they've outgrown them. They're getting really good at riding through the grass, practising wheelies, making turns, etc. I love that they have so much room to ride without having to worry about cars and such. It's nothing but good old fashioned outdoor fun and exercise!
Not knowing when I could expect our broody hen to hatch her chicks, I was pleasantly surprised to see these little cuties this morning. Born in the old stroller, which is a favorite nesting place, this momma hen has 9 or 10 little chicks beneath her!
Even with the surprising winter-like weather lately, our little farm is getting greener by the day. I love it!
While doing some work in the hallway area, we uncovered some bits of our home's history- old wallpaper, names drawn on the wall beneath the paneling, and my favorite, an entire shredded up newspaper that had become a nest of some sort hidden in the ceiling of the hallway.
Examining the tiny bits of the newspaper was fascinating to me, and we finally discovered that it was from 1905. But my question is, why was a 1905 newspaper in the ceiling of a 1934 house? It's a mystery we may never solve.
Woke during the night and was shocked to see a good couple inches of snow. I believe this is the very first time its ever snowed here in May. Thankfully, its all melted already.
With the new service and new, larger panel nearly completed, we are able to proceed with more wiring throughout the house.
The boys' room wiring is now done, so we can focus on the cosmetics: a newly painted BLUE ceiling (they want it to look like the sky for their superhero decals), new sheetrock and paint in the closet.
The girls' rooms are nearing completion, with most of the painting and the closets finished. We still have to paint the floors, and install trimwork throughout, but we're definitely showing progress.
Wow. It's been so crazy around here. Through the generosity of Handy Husband's employer, we were able to get our new 400 amp service put in, complete with new, underground wiring to the house. Now we're just waiting on the electric company to come out and switch their part of it.
We've had some issues with our lines lately, causing outages, and when the electric company came out to fix it, they were quite shocked and concerned with the poor condition of our old line going into the house. It will be such a relief to have some peace of mind once this new service is completed.
Our area has had quite a bit of flooding from a storm system that went through a couple nights ago. Here's our road.
Handy Husband spent the entire weekend reinforcing and patching the section of roof that was ripped off in a tornado about 3 years ago. The hole kept getting bigger and bigger every time we'd get any strong winds.
