Chicks, Chicks, and MORE Chicks

Been an eggciting weekend.  

Red Star

We bought 3 chicks on Thursday evening at the NEW local True Value store, they are called Red Star and they are all 3 pullets.

All 3 Red Star's

Friday I had to take my daughter grocery shopping, and we ended up stopping at the local Southern States to see what kind of chicks they had. Well I ended up purchasing 6 Black Sex-Link Chicks and 1 Buff Orpington, all pullets.

Black Sex-Link

Buff Orpington

Went back to True Value and got 3 more chicks, 2 were Partridge Rock and the other one is an Ameraucana, all pullets.

Ameraucana

Partridge Rock

Then we were off to Tractor Supply for more chicks, our meat birds or so I had hoped.  When we got there, they were ALL SOLD OUT! :(  So I thought I would just go ahead and get some others, so we got 6 Barred Rock pullets and 1 Barred Rock Rooster and we got 1 California White (hope its a pullet as well). 

Male Barred Rock

Female Barred Rock

California White

Female Barred Rock

Then of course we got home with everyone and put them all in the box together, so I don't have photos of all of them together in their separate boxes.  But then, a few hours after we got home, our first bantam chick hatched in the incubator!!! 

3 New Bantam Babies

7 Bantam Babies, waiting to see if more hatch.

Bantam Baby needs some TLC, has Spraddle Leg

With her splint on, it's the wrong size, so we had to do a different one.

Waiting to see if anymore bantam eggs hatch.  Have 3 or 4 more in the incubator along with 3 duck eggs that are not expected to hatch till next Saturday.

Precious Life

Well it's been a while, a LONG while!!

We have been busy with school, life and everything in between.

We finished up school last year in like mid-July and planned to start back in September, but my daughter had a bad accident and was in the hospital and rehab from September 3, 2015 to November 21, 2016.  It's a long road ahead, but she is doing great.

Week in ICU

Getting back to her old self.

So school had been put on hold for a bit and we finally got the 2015 - 2016 school year started in January.

We also found out in 2015 that Curtis DOES indeed have Dyslexia along with Dysgraphia, Dyspraxia and Dyscalculia.  I am really glad that we finally got a REAL diagnosis so that our county school administrators can understand why Curtis does not work at his grade level per his age.

Wow, what else happen in 2015???  A lot really, but those were the 2 main events. :)

Lets see, what else has been happening???

We started raising rabbits, a few different breeds basically.  We are raising a meat breed, New Zealand and Californian (they will be mixed) and then we raising a pet breed, Harlequin and Dutch mixed with Mini Lops and Rex, basically a mutt meat breed or pet. :)

These are the meat rabbit breeders: These were all FREE!!!!

Momma New Zealand White Doe

Sister 2 (Little Sister) New Zealand White Doe

Daddy (Buddy) Our New Zealand Buck

Sister 1 (Big Sister) New Zealand White Doe

Cali Our Californian Doe

Sister 3 (Little Bit) New Zealand Doe

We got our first 6 the weekend of Easter, actually the day before.  These were all free with cages, feeders, food, water bottles, everything.

Then we got 2 more with some bartering.  Got a momma Dutch and one of her offspring, a little buck that is Dutch and Harlequin mixed.  Then we got 2 more little does that are Dutch/Mini Lop and Rex mixed.  Can't wait for babies this spring.

Bunnicula Our Dutch/Harlequin Buck

All the Rages Dana "Cocoa" Dutch Doe

Tangerine Dutch/Mini Lop/Rex Doe

Cup Cake Dutch/Mini Lop/Rex Doe

Of course we ended up with one litter already from Momma and Buddy on 8/18/15, she had 7 kits and they were all wonderfully healthy.  We ended up keeping 3 of them.  Here is one of the babies.  They are 6 months old now.

This is Bow/Bo one of the 3 that we are keeping.

Let's see what the next few months bring. :)

Meet Stewie!!!

After making my oldest son's TMNT hats for Christmas he went to work the following week and a guy he works with just loved the one he had on.  So this guy says "where did you get that?" my son replies, "my mom made it along with others" so then the guy says "Dude, can she make Stewie?"

So my son asks if I can make a "Stewie" hat for this guy and I am like "WHAT is a Stewie?".  Well turns out he meat the little baby from "Family Guy".  I don't watch this show, but have seen some previews.

Anyway I said sure, it couldn't be that hard.  Well here is "Stewie"

Strange looking little thing, but the guy LOVED IT and now he is wanting me to make something for his Autistic brother.  He has to get back to me on the characters name.

Kitty's say Hello to Spiderman!

For all of my granddaughters and grandson this past Christmas I made them Hello Kitty and Spiderman crocheted hats and scarves to match.  They loved them!!!

Here are some pics of the hats and scarves.

Crocheted Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles Hat

Here are some hats I made for Christmas presents for my oldest son.  He LOVES TMNT so I made him a hat/beanie of each turtle.

For the Love of .... Crochet

I use to watch my grandmother crochet all the time, but never learned myself.  Now my grandmother is gone and I have longed to learn the art of crochet.  So 3 years ago I got myself a new Teach Yourself to Crochet book and DVD and some new hooks and I set out to teach myself.  The first thing I made was a wrap or something like a wrap anyway.

I couldn't even tell you what this stitch is. LOL  I got the idea pattern from here  http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/wrap.  I didn't do it exactly like the pattern, but its okay, I like it.

Now I have crocheted many items including a blanket for my youngest son.  See picture below.  I made this just last year and he swears you could cook a turkey in it. LOL

Brent Watts - Comet Pan-STARRS

Brent Watts