Married in the Spring- March

Weather warming, spurts of showers, plants start budding, and pollen ruins everything.  Karsten and I began our spring but we were sick together.  So, we decided to celebrate anyway.

Of course we celebrated Oreo's 100th birthday.  Who do you think we are?

 Granted, we aren't very Irish.  Maybe just a tad for both of us.  But I love holidays so we did it right.

Corned Beef and cabbage, baked potatoes, scones, and watched "Darby O'Gil and the Little People".  Gotta love the Irish.

Married with Chickens

I have never had chickens before.  Karsten has never had chickens before.  This was an experiment.  We learned everything we know now through friends, the internet, and "Raising Chickens for Dummies".  So when a problem came up, we panicked just a bit.

This is what Karsten woke up to one morning.  Looks like she's dead, right.  Wrong.  Her neck is completely twisted around and in between her legs, but she is still alive.  Even after Karsten gave up and said she wasn't going to last much longer.  We quarantined her then I did my research.  At first, we were scared it was New Castles (which is fatal and contagious) but then we found it was more similar to crook neck.  The cure was a vitamin B supplement so I booked it to the pharmacy and slowly nursing my little chick back to health.

I'm going to make a great nurse. :-)

We have also began our plans for a chicken coop.  This is the one I like.

It's from a chicken blog I found on pinterest.  The couple who built it said they spent over $1000.  Karsten and I are planning on doing it for a couple 100.  Stay tuned for more on chickens...