The Party's Over....

GD and "Lady GaGa"

 My GD left for her home in Illinois on Sunday, and its sure been quiet around here since she and her family headed on out into the warm sunshine.  The week had been filled with tasty strawberry picking, chicken wrangling, vet visits, garage sales, a flea market, tea party with Great Gramma, horseback riding, and playing with the Corgis.  Evenings we spent playing Old Maid and Black Jack gambling for pennies.  I had forgotten how active 9 yr olds can be, but she was very polite and helpful, much credit due to her parents training.

GD learned why chickens need to consume gravel to help grind up the grass and hand-outs.  She learned how to trick-train the young pullets, too!  And, thanks to her daily handling of the young ones, they will be much easier to handle for me later this year.  The only trick that was a little bothersome was the one where they learned to fly to the top of their little plastic house - because from THAT height, they figured out how to flap up over the top of the 6 ft. tall chain link fence!!!  At first I figured that they were digging and getting underneath the fence to the "great outdoors".  But after watching for a while, I noted their wings were long and strong enough to propel them up, up and AWAY over the top of that run, and we'd have to wrangle them back into the pen once again!  We did a little feather clipping, and there's been no problem since that day.

Tee Shirt Painting Craft

This morning it was back to work for me...fondly remembering the fun and activities of last week...

GD and her favorite, "Maggie"

 the ChickenWrangler