Chickens

One of my sisters used to say, "so I thought I would indulge myself" whenever she bought something special for herself.
It was usually preceded or followed with, " I've always wanted one of those"

Well, I've always wanted chickens.  I used to feed Antie Ett's in Fleetwood and I think of them like tomato plants or fruit trees, relatively easy to care for with a payoff-- fruit or eggs.
In all the places we've lived there wasn't one where 'farm animals ' were allowed by the zoning laws. So I never could indulge myself.

However,  Steph has 3 hens and since she is not allowed to have chickens in the rental house they're renting , we (I) offered to take in her hens temporarily. We'll keep them until Steph and Al  move to California in December.

We made a little area for them to run around in on our back patio.  Here's a video...

And a video of Nana and Evie yesterday....

Addendum to this post.

Here are our first eggs.  Pretty aren't they?

Graham and Evie .... lunch at Nana's

Graham asked for a reprise of the potatoes with butter/mint sauce, Evie had yoghurt and cereal.

Evie wanted even more cereal, a different kind.  Then she had more with milk.  She can eat!

These videos show Graham nicely playing and Evie the Imp.

Emily's Visit

Emily had a little business in Houston this past week. so we had big dinner plans at the Walkers.  Steph and Evie didn't get much sleep the night before because Evie coughed all night. Dinner at Piping Rock was cxd so we invited the twins to Bammel Lane and had a nice dinner there while Steph and Ev stayed home. PK and GB were thrilled with the reduction sauce I made for the filets and the butter/mint sauce for the boiled red spuds. They each ate 3 lamb chops to boot!

Here are some shots of the house already decorated with some Hallowe'en stuff and some nice video of Auntie Em and Steph feeding Evelyn. went to the Walker's and enjoyed some nice wine. Evelyn is still not 100% as you will see in the video of Steph feeding her chicken soup..
First here are a few pics of the downstairs of the house on Piping Rock.

 A great workable kitchen (with bat)

 Hallway

 Living room

 Game room

             

Jumping Beans

We visited the Walkers this afternoon. In their new home they have a trampoline, it'll only be there short while until it's moved by the builder who was storing it there. I videod the kids playing on it. There are more pics but it's late and I'll post more tomorrow. Well, tomorrow's here and here are more pics and vids

Evie making sounds like a lion roaring and it made her cough

Paige is a lion too

She did it again!

Graham is a lion in repose

That's a scary lion

                                                    

Finally after a heat related writing block here is the next post

Houston weather is great in Oct Nov and Dec and I am so looking fwd to it. I was spoiled by the July and August climate in New Mexico. September wasn't very nice here in Houston and the humidity and heat encouraged the mosquitoes, the bane of my existence.

Unhappily for Little Evie, they like her about as much as me. You can see the little bite near her mouth on these vids.

She has a little luggage lock and is intrigued by the little trigger that opens it.

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Next she plays Hide -go-seek..

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I don't know why I am unable to upload the videos from YouTube as I have in the past. I couldn't so I created links instead.
Enjoy them.

We left this one out......

Here is a video of the kids playing with some clever masks they made.

Trestle Trail

Since the kids and I got rained out a few days ago, Nana and I wanted to complete this trail. It is a tough bugger.
We finally got there and shared the roost with a St Bernard who was two years old and Patchie tried to snip at him.

Beautiful scenery.....









Finally we reached the end of the trail.....