Big News! Our chickens have arrived! This morning at 6:00 am the post office called to let us know that our chickens were here. We have 26 little chicks and they are cute as can be. 1/2 of them are black and yellow (Plymouth Barred Rock) and the others are brownish (Rhode Island Red) They are drinking (fortified water) and eating (mashed, boiled egg yolks). They are already pecking at everything. Katie has named two of them (Lily and Brownie), but we have warned her that we are only keeping 10 of them to lay eggs for us. They are fun to watch. They fall asleep under the light and slowly their heads dip down and they lay down. Then another chick comes and tried to step on or over the sleeping chick and it quickly awakes and gets up to find another spot to lay down. Occasionally they fall or roll over without apparent cause. At first they kept climbing into the water bowl to take a drink. Now they've figured out that they'll get wet. This is serious entertainment!
The other pictures were also taken this morning. Our new piano arrived last night thanks to the help of some of Bret's friends from work. Would you believe that the guy who gave us this piano (yes, free) told us that he was so anxious to get rid of it, if we didn't pick it up this week, he'd take his sawzall (sp?) and cut it up to put it in the garbage! We are delighted with our new piano, although we'll be arranging for someone to come and tune it soon!
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