Monthly Archives: January 2015
Happy chicken feet!
I spent hours shoveling the heaviest, wettest, smelliest muck you can imagine this morning. A winter of muck. Heavy, wet chicken manure. I cleaned about 2″ of muck – a whole layer of ick – and wheeled unwieldy wheelbarrows full to a dump spot. I nearly landed in the muck after heaving the wheelbarrow to dump it. Then I shoveled five wheelbarrows of wood chips (from trees felled over the summer) into the run. The chickens spread it all out for me. They look SO much happier, and it doesn’t stink anymore. AND – this is HUGE – I was able to walk into the run in my sneakers, not my knee-high muck boots, to deliver food.
Happy hen feet, scratching.
More hen feet. Barred Rock.
Big Gordon giving approval.
More young hen feet – these are the young pullets who are just about starting to lay.
Creative day
He added a sun and sky, then went on to create his own scene of Hawaii. So fun to see him work! And NO mess!
Sam was busy working on modding Minecraft through a course he received for Christmas (YouthDigital). He made his own biomes, ores, armor, blocks and other mods, then forged it (compiler) and imported the mod into Minecraft. All the code is in Java. Very cool!
The Fresh Paint app for Windows 8 is just awesome. Ben really enjoyed learning how to mix colors and paint!
Here’s Sam with his “Ultimate Sword”!
This is the “ore wall” displaying all the custom ores – copper, sapphire, aquamarine, malachite…great way to blend geology and gaming! Good job, Sam!
Family portrait fun!
Does your family love photo-taking as much as mine? 😉 We wear our Skene family tartans and try to get ONE, just ONE picture, where everyone is looking decent. However, Sam enjoys photo-bombing tremendously. Enjoy!
This is our BEST shot – wait ’til you see the out-takes! Click on this picture to go see…
Hoods in the Woods
Guten rutsch ins neue jahr! (A good slide into the New Year.)
This is how you say Happy New Year in German. I like the “slide” part!
We went for a nice walk, each in our favorite hoodies…
On a neighborhood walk before dinner!
The boys were loud and nuts, as usual!
But the sun was out, and it was a very refreshing 34 degrees!
They love it when I try to capture a family photo 😉
Trying again!
Finally gave up and did this…
More silly out-takes…
Walking home to lamb dinner supplied by Mom and Richard, and cooked beautifully by Dave. Happy New Year to all!
The chickens seem to line up just fine for chicken family portraits. What’s the big deal?