To Do List

Gardening like a mad woman, trying to get a jump start on the season. I made myself a greenhouse over my raised bed garden. I used the flexible fiberglass tent poles as the frame and then covered it with clear plastic. I'll report on that later when I have it up and running.

I'm also Building a roost for the new chickens and getting the barn ready. The baby chicks will actually be in the basement for the first few weeks so I can regulate the temperature better. Anybody out there that is going to be raising chickens I have a tip for you. Don't pay $40 for the brooder starter packages that they advertise. It usually consists of a heat lamp and feeding items along with a piece of flexible cardboard to put around the area you will be keeping them to help keep the heat in. You can get heat lamps really cheap at TSC and even Walmart. You can also get the flexible cardboard at PakMail for .20 a foot. I got everything I needed for around $15.

Let's see...what else am I doing???? Oh yeah, I have to clean the chicken poop out of the garage, restain the playset, clean out the gutters, cut Bears hair, fix the fence I broke with the tire, blah blah blah.

Gotta go!

Happy Birthday

I'm a week behind again! I can't help it...too much to do, so little time. I missed 2 birthday's!!! Brad Bingman and my Bryan's. Sorry guys!

Happy Birthday Brad! Wish I could have been in Colorado to share some of that pig with you. You can come labor day and make us a pig for our party. That would be awesome! I hope you had a wonderful Birthday! I'll see you in a month.

Bryan what can I say. You're my baby boy! I wasn't too concerned about blogging your Birthday since I was actually here and you were spoiled rotten over the entire weekend. 29 Already...WOW! I am very proud of you and I love you very much even though sometimes you are annoying and you are teaching it to your sons. Happy Birthday B!