We're all a bit tired after a day of going to swap, finding the cuckoo morans that Red was hunting for and arriving home to get the chicks set up and then diving into as many spring projects we could get our hands on. It was finally a warm day and we got our first sunburn of the year I think. Sounds lame for like a high of 50 maybe? but we savored every minute. Birkleigh was as high as a kite on farm livin' - dancing around and saying how lucky she was to have real baby chicks and live in this place. At one point she was so cute- "Tell me I'm not dreaming... this can't be real!" Maybe it was the delirium of waking at 4:30am this morning, but it was really great to have her verbalise all this joy that we all felt.... enjoying all the hopefulness and gratitude of springtime ... how can you not be elated when you live in the midwest and have those first spring days! but also remembering how we went to a swap last year this time (my first! strange venture into this phenomena) and this WAS all a dream. And now, we have 5 new chicks and more days like this ahead. And there were steaks on the grill from our friend and neighbor's steer. I've posted some pics from today (all in the barn- we need to change our main picture soon!) and included some of the more mature girls as they checked out the new arrivals. Tom is the buff polish, and Sam the lace winged one, and then Frances, the americana. Billie was prancing her fancy pants outside. Who wouldn't?
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