Homeowners!

Finally, finally, finally! We own the house on Stockton Rd...but we sadly, we still don't live there. After a week of appointments and signing a massive mountain of papers, it's all official. We aren't moving in until August 11th (ish), but we can be in the yard as much as we want as of last Friday-so if you're looking for me, I'm probably there!

Sunday Keith and I went over to the house with a weed wacker, a rototiller, and every other piece of garden equipment we could think to bring. We got a beautiful day to enjoy our future view!

The garden space can only be described as a hot mess! With weeds just about as tall am me, we were in for a ton of work ahead of us. With the magic of big tools the garden was transformed in no time (or about 6 hours).

The hot mess:



Look! We can see the ground!



We got a little further than we expected and I even got to plant a few seeds and BJ was there to help.


I was there again today working and will be there again tomorrow and the next day....

And in chicken news: We are getting about 3 eggs a day now! We've only gotten one regular sized egg so far, but the tiny eggs are still edible and delicious!

So when are you coming to visit!?!?

The first egg!

I just came running and screaming into the house-I just could not believe my eyes! There were two very small brown eggs in the coop!

This is not supposed to happen yet! Everything we've read has said that chickens will start laying eggs between 20-24 weeks old. Ours are exactly 15 weeks old. I am really hoping that this means that we have a few over-achievers in our group!


Which chick laid these eggs? We have no idea. Will this mean that we'll be getting eggs regularly now-I really hope so! These are very small eggs, which is normal since it they're just starting out. In the pic below the small, light brown egg was laid by one of our hens and the large speckled brown one was from the grocery store-hopefully ours will get that big eventually!


We took one egg and left the other-so they keep laying in the same place. But now I'm wondering if we should take a look under the deck, since that is where they spend most of their time during the day-I'll have to check it out!