Ha!  No, not a horse or a cat, but a NEW CAMERA!! A Huge Professional one!

So anyway, under the cut are LOADS of photos like this:

and

Enjoy, while I look through the “how to take Good Photographs” books that I got tonight!

Oh, and a video while you’re at it:

This photo is of a craft I was doing. They were supposed to be reindeer, instead they look like angry clowns.  The faces are the boys feet, the antler/red clown hair is their hand prints.

Getting ready to mix up brownies.

Making brownies and saying “Merry Chris-Chris!”

The wire extends 1 foot below the ground to deter foxes from digging under it making it vastly safer than the Calcutta Slum they previously inhabited.

The last holdout of the guerrilla egg laying movement ceased this week in preparation for winter. I expect we will not see a resurgence in covert egg laying until late spring when the hours of daylight increases again. I really despise buying eggs again, its so foreign and those store bought eggs are just awful in comparison

I’m attaching some photos under the cut and here’s a video of Alexander’s reaction to Sebastian!

Stu went back to work today, and as with Alexander, I’m going to try to post a photo a day during the week while I’m home so that you all and Stu can watch Sebastian grow before your very eyes!

Enjoy the photos under the cut.  Hope this makes up for the week with no photos!

Thanks Nanny and Pa!!!

What is left to do?

- Dig 1ft into the ground so we can bury the wire (stops the foxes digging underneath)
- Staple wire around base and bury it
- Screw the access ramp to the underside of the box
- Screw in the roosting poles
- Import food + water
- Show chickens new real estate ad for condo space and up-sell them to move from the old slum to the new mountain view condo! (Eggs required as down payment).

So nothing really big to do.

My parents brought down three bushels of apples for Stu to make some more applesauce with.  I headed down to Roanoke with my friend April, her daughter and Alexander in tow, and we when shopping for the day while Stu worked on the sauce.

He started at 7:00 this morning, finished at 5:00, and the final outcome looked something like this: 

I helped him load these containers up.

This was the sauce already done when I got home.

This is the sauce he had cooling to put in the rest of the containers.

In case you can’t count that high, we ended up with 44 more containers on top of the 17 he made the other weekend.  Eight gallons of applesauce!  I proceeded to eat about two gallons of it for dinner.  I hope we have enough to last through next weekend!

Oh, and because Stu is so wonderful, I stopped by our favorite donut shop, Blue Collar Joe’s, on the way home (it’s about an hour down to this donut shop, so we don’t do it too often), to get him a surprise thank you gift.  Feast your eyes on these beauties!