Where Have You Been!?

Oh my gosh where have ya'll been? I've missed you! I can't believe you have been away for 2 months! What do you mean I was the one who disappeared off the face of the earth? Well... I'm sorry then. That was quite rude of me. We have been so busy out here on the homestead with gardening, meat chickens, naps that the sprout requires that I take, and everything else; I have let blogging slide down my list of priorities. I will work on it though. 

Let's do  quick catch up and then I will do some more detailed posts on some of the things with pictures...

Seed Starting!

Basically everything has happened in February. I don't even know where to begin with the updates. So we will take it slow. Seed starting is nice and easy. So that's what I did. We started tomatoes, cabbage, and peppers. Have you started your seeds yet? You know, the ones that are supposed to be started inside and not direct sown.

Meet and Greet Part Deux

Now for the rest of the Homestead. 

The new laying flock. They are about 7 weeks old in this picture. That was about 2 weeks ago. There are 7 Black Australorp Pullets(hens). The Black Australorps will be excellent layers of large brown eggs. Also there are 7 Easter Egger Pullets. They are reported by the hatchery to be very good layers of blue or greenish eggs. Then there is the rooster who is also an Easter Egger. 

Meet and Greet

So... I've been thinking about it and you haven't actually met the members of our Homestead. I will commence work remedying that situation now. :)

The Usual Suspects:

Left to Right: Zoey (Yorkshire Terrier and Official Boss of the world/Cat Herder), Bug(Blue Heeler/Border Collie and The Keeper of Animals and Grounds at Hogwarts the Homestead. Ahem... and last but certainly not least, Rats(Chorkie and Keeper of the dirty socks.) I am aware that Rats is a blindingly clever and original name. I assure it's nothing but love for this Rat Fink TM.

Finally.

We are finally moved. Thank God.

This transition has been a pretty rough period for our little homestead. 7 out of our original 12 chickens have been killed. By our landlord's dog. So that's awesome. Otherwise, we are finally here. So we can finally begin to clean up our new farm and get to work. I am just a little frazzled from the move. It wasn't far we just have so much stuff and the place wasn't move in ready at all. But we are here and finally ready to begin!

Just Checking In

Yes we are still alive and this blog thing is still happening. It's just happening a little slower and less frequently than initially intended. However, I think we are finally at the climax of our hectic situation. So it has to get better right? Here's the thing we will be moving a homestead for the second time on short notice in 60 days. It's a mess I feel like we have livestock strewn over half the county and what's with us is ummm a little cramped. I like to think of it as efficiently positioned. Haha whatever it takes right? So basically we are in a limbo state waiting for our new place to be ready. We already have horses and some stuff there but we have everything else crammed into a very small space with us.