Loving My Clothes Line

Good morning - I had to get on the desktop to place and order with TSC and decided I would pop over here and put up a post. I am thinking I will try to do at least one post a week till I can get back into a more regular posting - of course my more regular posting may only be 2-3 posts a week - I just don't know yet. I have worked on a few ideas and such so my time away has not be a total neglect of my blog. 

My husband and I are still slowly plugging along and building the new chicken coop. We have come to realize that it could be several months before the chickens that we want will be available. So we are in no rush to finish the coop. In doing some research it has helped us problem solve some issues we have had with our current set up - which will not be going anywhere. We continue to get anywhere from 1-3 eggs a day - as we are so thankful! 

 I am loving having my clothes line fixed. 

One of my daughter in laws gave me this awesome bag - it collapses - it is perfect to fill up with what ever goes to the line - hang it up there and pull things out and hang up. It is so much nicer than bending down and pulling things out of a basket. It makes both the hanging things out and gathering the nice dry clothes later. 

It seems to me that the sun does a bit of sanitizing of the things on the line as well. 

Might even whiten then up a bit. 

And I love how things smell coming off the clothes line. 

Hope you all are doing well! :O) 

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A few EXTRA minutes spare today....

 I have a few minutes and thought I would jump on here to say a quick hello! 

So one of the things that we have been working on that is keeping us busier than usual - is building a new chicken coop. We have 9 chickens and have not been getting very many eggs at all- in fact we had not gotten any eggs at all for the past couple of months. Then a couple of days ago I found this: 

An old tin building we made into a chicken coop- years ago. When my husband built a slightly larger coop- we moved this one so they could use it for shelter from weather. As you can see the tornado blew it around and bent it up - but they happily  have started laying there. I moved these eggs- and places a few fake eggs there - chickens love to lay where other chickens lay, so if I had just gotten these lovely eggs and not replaced them - there is a huge chance that chickens would NO longer they there. Well the very next day I found 1 real egg with the fakes and today - I have already seen a chicken sitting there - so we should get at least 1 egg today. It feels great to finally be getting some eggs again. But we are still in process of building a 10x10 coop - and will be ordering 25 chickens from McMurry- after we are prepared for the baby chicks! And in about 6 months we will be giving eggs to family and selling a few to help pay for feed. 

This week I have been able to harvest a few eggplants, okra and some cherry tomatoes- I also have kale and swiss chard growing. I really want to plant some beets, rutabaga, radishes, and carrots- I just haven't had a chance yet. Hoping I can this week end. 

Well that is about all the time I have. I hope you all are doing well. I will get on and up date as I can. :O)