Eggs!!!!

Yes, friends and neighbors, it's true. Our Chicken Girls FINALLY started laying eggs. I thought, perhaps, we had acquired the only hens at the feed store who did not understand their career goals or maybe, we were just deficient enough at chicken farming we didn't know what we were doing....a totally plausible concept. Of course, our chickens couldn't be bothered with laying the eggs in the custom-built coop. Nope. They picked the lean-to off the shed, making little nests in some cast-off hay and I just happened to find the eggs while moving the dog food storage container. They have started to lay one or two eggs in the coop but still leave us presents in the shed, the dog kennel and various other locales. Now we have a perpetual Easter egg hunt. The kids are still trying to figure out why the eggs are not "regular white eggs" but they seem to have no problems eating them.

We had a surprise snow storm, letting the kids out of school on Monday. The buses could not traverse all the hills out here. The storm must have been centered on the Coast Range because once we got about a mile and a half east of the house, no snow.

As I write this, our little girl has divested herself of her pajamas and diaper, feeding them both to the puppy through the bars of the baby gate while simultaneously saying, "No Puppy!...Mine!" Two year-old logic at its finest.... :)