We’ve been keeping chickens for around 4 years. I love our flock! They do the funniest things, and provide relaxing entertainment on any afternoon. (This picture is so funny….he was watching me to make sure I wasn’t going to get too close to his ladies.) At the moment, we have 25 grown hens. About 5 or 6 are not quite…
Month: September 2013
here and there
I was happy to visit with my grandmother again yesterday. I told her I was sorry I hadn’t come last week. She responded by saying, “well, I was wondering when we were going to get to that little matter!”. I’m not sure she even realized I wasn’t there, but she did seem glad to see us. If you could be…
my desk
Brace yourselves…. This was my desk “before”. Oddly enough, a good many of these things didn’t belong to me at all- this desk becomes our family “catch-all”. I guess because it sits in the center of our home? It was horrible. It’s taken me a week to clean. Do you hear that?? Angels are singing…I think a miracle has happened-…
today
Courtney starts piano again with our *very favorite* piano teacher. Then, we are heading to decorate my grandmother’s room for fall … I’ve had the basket packed for a week. I did rub these dollar store pumpkins down with some paint this morning… It does a good job of taking off that slick, plastic look! It should be a good…
updates and sharing
We’re SLOWLY cleaning our yard…. It’s been a great deal of work for the family, but it is looking better. Perhaps by the end of the week, all of the small rubble will be gone. We’re still not sure how we’re going to manage the larger pieces. They are very difficult to break apart (impossible, really), with just a sledge…
missing Mama
This week has been just plain hard. I keep thinking it will get better. I hope it does soon. I have been going through my desk this week. A good bit of what was in my desk is what was in her desk. In an effort to put it away, we had placed everything there. It has taken me this…
goals for this week
I’m picking back up where I left off last week. These are the things from my list last week I need to finish: Insulate the first part of our basement (Paul decided to wait on this until the windows and doors have been installed downstairs.) Finish dresses for my girls I have started CLEAN MY DESK We also had the…
goals for last week
Funny how an illness can come in and wipe out your plans. This is where I ended last week- My goals for last week: (1) Finish one book on MY reading list (2) Finish one book on the children’s reading list (3) Exercise at least FOUR times (I managed three…) (4) Homeschool (5) Begin clean up of our yard (I…
naming babies
So the big baby naming has started in the Lambert home. It’s still so early in this process…Paul and I usually have friendly arguments for months while we’re waiting for the expected arrival of a new Lambert. In the end, we spend a great deal of prayer on the baby’s name and suddenly it’s there. I’ve been praying. Here’s what…
one thousand gifts
144. Joshua making his coffee drink in the kitchen…complete with whipped cream! 145. discussions of baby names 146. fried okra for lunch 147. contact yesterday from a highschool friend 148. my dear Aunt Cathy…always a listening ear when my heart feels like it is breaking 149. family dinners 150. smiles on little faces after days of illness 151. afternoon chats…
Composting Chickens
This is a short video on composting with chickens. We give our chickens all of our food scraps, pulled weeds, some raked leaves and hay. We also throw in DRYER LINT! They are incredibly efficient at breaking it all down and come late winter and spring when we are ready to begin working on garden beds we have an abundance…
still sick, but having fun (and a note about fellowship)
Well, as of this morning, Lambert #7 is running a fever and feeling ill. At this point, knowing the duration of this illness, we’re going to cancel fellowship this month. We try to be very careful not to share our germs with all of you. This NOT a bug you want to share. Please continue to pray for our family…