A case of mistaken identity...

This cat will put up with a lot when there's food involved! More surprising was that the chickens put up with his presence. Our leftovers are THAT GOOD!

Run, Chicken, run!

Maximum entertainment value out of an old piece of bread!

Fall Fun

If only we could teach them to make piles of leaves instead of undoing them...

Chicken Fun!

Harvest Treasures

Went to the Farmers' Market last weekend and turned all of this:

into this:

And because we're still not out of apples, we had these apple dumplings for dessert - delicious!

In case you haven't heard

Esmeralda laid an egg! She makes a big announcement every time...

The Summer Garden

7 jars of Raspberry-Peach Jam, 9 jars of Blueberry-Strawberry (freezer) Jam (best enjoyed with "Suesse Hoernchen")

Cantaloupe!

Brussels Sprouts

All that, plus 6 eggs every day. I love my garden (and chickens).

All grown up

Esmeralda

Esmeralda enjoying some yellow squash

I just love those big combs and waddles!

All the girls are in full production mode now, we've had 6 eggs every day for the last 5 days. A few days ago we were inspired by "Master Chef" and had poached, soft boiled, and "sunny side up" eggs for breakfast. Delicious!

Petey the cat

Mealworm time!

On a hot day

We are back from a short vacation and the chickens are glad to be stretching their legs and wings again. As a special treat they got to be in the garden and stripped my broccoli plants...

One busy chicken

Our first egg!!! It was laid while we were on vacation, so we're too scared to eat it. It's probably cooked anyway, since it's been near 100F for a couple of days.

Taking a walk

Henelope enjoyed a walk through the garden...

where she met some cats...