Fun At The Playground

After voting we stopped by the park playground and let the children run around and have some fun. I really like this playground equipment. It is well thought out and it's grouped according to ages. The only downer was that the swings were in the sun and too hot to use.

We will have to come back when it is cooler or when the swings are in the shade.

It would be so neat if we had a swing set or a tire swing, but the kids don't seem too interested in the idea of a tire swing.

I think if the tire swing was going to be hanging from a tree limb it would be more appealing, but the trees around here all grow very tall... no side branches for a swing. A tire hanging from a garage support is just not that cool.

The slide was not too warm and Jaidan, with a little help from Mom, made it down the slide with no trouble.

He was very pleased with himself because, all by himself,  he could make it up and down the stairs, climb up the climbing ramp, run on the gangway, and then ring the bell. He was a happy little boy.

 

Tristan and Rhiannon had more fun on the  equipment for the older kids.

Tristan climbed up a rock climbing wall and seemed to like the view from the top of the slide.

Rhiannon followed her big brother and he was there to help her out.

It was a bit hot so we didn't stay too long and left for home and lunch. Then Rhiannon worked very hard and helped me rake up leaves on a path. She is so sweet. Tristan and Rhiannon helped with feeding the chickens and collecting eggs.

Trying to make sure they didn't get sunburned, mosquito bitten or in the poison oak did take a bit of the fun out of things, but we will adjust. I'm sure it is more stressful for the adults than the kids.

Peek at the Past

(June 8, 2009)

Pillows come in handy.

[7 eggs today]

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Egg In The Basket

This basket is one of the things that I found when I was sorting through over thirty years of stuff to donate to our town garage sale. I have sooooo much stuff to get rid of that I don't know quite where to start. My approach so far has been to sort through small areas like closets.

I have moved on to a small storage area that has been used as a catch all spot. I am tossing stuff! All that stuff that was saved because we might need it, or once used it, or someone gave it to us, or it's was something the kids had or... There was some kind of reason it got put away. Now I only want to save things that I love, that I use, and that are too expensive to toss.

I remember talking to a lady once who said that people spend the first thirty years of their life collecting stuff and the next thirty years getting rid of it. Sounds about right to me.

Just once in awhile I see something that I think I might find a use for and keep the item. Amazing, but a chicken has decided that she likes the little basket and she has made a round little nest.

Cute. I will keep trying to get a photo of the hen in the basket. When I remember the camera the basket is empty. The hen I saw in the basket yesterday was a Dark Brahma. Today I gave the chickens a peach and two apples for a treat. I will try to get a video of the hens chasing the "ball." Pretty funny stuff!

[11 eggs today]

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Feeling Better!

I didn't want to over do my first day of feeling Ok

so I started out collecting eggs.

Then I went out to get my gloves

and found that I had left them under a leak in the shed

so I put them in the sun to dry.

I took a photo because

they are the neatest gloves.

Knit on top so my hands don't get sweaty

and laytex or something on the palms and fingers.

Picked up mostly dry leaves

and put them in the pen

because the pen was getting too muddy.

Then I went over and raked up some

leaves and twigs and stuff

off of the driveway.

Checked back with the chickens

and filled the feeders and cleaned the nest boxes.

Morgan wants her chickens out of the coop

because she wants them all together.

But there are some late layers.

This little girl is telling me to go away.

And these three girls all want to lay their egg

in the same nest area.

Go figure?

There are lots of places for them to lay

but there seem to be favorite spots

that they compete over.

Silly chickens.

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