Thursday, September 04, 2008

Thursday Thirteen #96

Oh my, I just realized I haven’t posted anything up where in a while! So much has happened; I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll just do a Thursday thirteen update on Creekistan!



1. The chickens now have a permanent home. The wonderful Chicken Condo, built by my husband, is now occupied by 8 of the luckiest chickens in Creekistan. They don’t even know how good they’ve got it!


2. No, the rooster hasn’t crowed yet, and there are no eggs yet. But I’ve been giving the rooster crowing lessons and he seems to pay attention. But the egg laying . . . I’ll have to just let them learn that on their own.


3. We’ve been cleaning out the Bee House and making it a better place to store our stuff. Once we put sheets of plastic on the walls, pull out the carpet, and remove the drop-ceiling, it isn’t so bad! Except the fact that the whole house seems to lean to one side.


4. We officially own a truck now. Woo Hoo! Along with the chickens, the truck makes us official farmers!


5. My garden was a complete bust. Nothing has turned out except for a couple yellow squash and a couple cucumbers. Everything either got eaten by deer or just gave up. Oh, except for the turnips. They loved it there. But what exactly can I do with a bunch of turnips?


6. Some of my container gardens did okay—with herbs and some tomatoes. We think it’s because they get more sun than my big garden.


7. My living room hasn’t progressed for about a month. I need to work on it, but it’s too darn hot. I hope to have it done by Thanksgiving.


8. My 3 ½ year-old daughter has started preschool. She was excited and seems to really enjoy it.


9. My son started the 3rd grade. I’m always amazed by how much he has learned in 3-4 years of school. He’s already doing algebra, but he doesn’t know it!


10. I’ve started back to college. I’m taking a few classes—because I can! After putting my husband through until he got his Doctorate, I think I deserve some lernin’.


11. In the morning, we all hop into the car and drive to school. With both my kids in school, me in college, and my husband teaching, that means we are all in school.


12. For those of you curious, I’m taking Art History, a drawing class, an upper-level Ethics class, and Pilates. Oh, and I’m going to play in the Early Music Ensemble.


13. I’m loving every minute of it. Being away from home and learning (or re-learning) things has given me a wonderful opportunity a lot more “me” time.



4 comments:

Janet said...

Turnips...mash 'em, bake 'em, put 'em in a stew :-)

Anonymous said...

Interesting, it would have been nice to see a picture of the chicken condo :)

Anonymous said...

I miss having chickens.

Get a second Rooster and you'll have more crowing that you'd ever want.

Anonymous said...

lol at giving the rooster crowing lessons, and congrats on going back to school! happy TT!