Thomas & Jr.

Thomas has always loved chickens. We have had several over the years. It is hard to keep chickens out here. With neighbor's dogs, coyotes, chicken hawks, and such, we have probably spent a small fortune on chickens and the things needed for feeding them. But we keep trying.

Right now we have six full grown chickens that are producing eggs. When we had a rooster a few months ago my husband decided to build an incubator so we could hatch baby chicks to replenish our flock. It was a good thing he did because one day not too long after the incubator was finished our rooster disappeared, never to return.

We kept a total of ten eggs and successfully hatched six, although one baby chick died after a few days of hatching.

The biggest chick Thomas named Junior. I'm not sure why because we aren't sure if it is male or female chicken. But Junior is it's name.

The other day I walked outside to check for eggs in the coop and saw Thomas walking across the yard and Junior was following him. It looked just like a puppy. When Thomas would stop, Junior would stop. Thomas sat down on the ground and Junior jumped in his lap.

I laughed at them. But it's also kind of sweet. Junior knows Thomas will protect him and if Thomas isn't outside to watch over him then Junior stays in the coop. Who said chickens were dumb?

Nice Weekend

A nice weekend is coming to a close.

Yesterday we stayed home from church. I had asked someone to take my childrens' class so we could have a family together weekend. We didn't have anything planned. Just wanted to spend some time together.

So, since we have passes to the Aquarium we decided to go there in the morning. I love to go and see all the different fish and sea life they have. Thomas loves the birds. We spent a few hours there taking in the different exhibits before heading home for a quick lunch of soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

In the evening, we took a ride over to Ingelside to check out some building of offshore rigs that is going on but couldn't get close enough to really see it well. Then we decided to take the ferry over to Port A and drive around and see some sites. By sundown we found ourselves at Fins Restaurant & Grill and went in to get a bite before heading home. It was a very nice day.

Today was a usual Sunday. Did some housework, some laundry, some grocery shopping, some bread baking, some gluten making, and watched some Dallas Cowboys football. They won!!!!! It was a great game and one I wish I had been right there in the stadium to watch.

Anyway, now the day is almost over. Time to get some sleep and get ready for a new work week tomorrow.

I'll leave you with a few shots from our trip to the Aquarium.

And this is how I feel as my day ends today.

New Blog & Rain

I didn't think it would ever stop raining.

We have received over 12 inches of rain since last week and today we actually saw the sunshine for a few minutes.

Tomorrow is the first day of fall however our high is going to still be in the 90s. We are supposed to get a cold front in on Sunday evening but we aren't holding our breath for freezing temperatures.

As you can see I have changed my blog. It is still under construction and hopefully I will have the whole thing completed over the next few weeks. I hope you like it.

For my photo today this is a purple water hyacinth that is in the lawn pond in our front yard. Our chickens loved the plants and were eating and walking on them so my husband had to put a fence around the pond so they couldn't trample the plants anymore. They are finally beginning to look healthy again and today there are four flowers among the greens. Here is a close up of one of them.

Football

For anyone who knows me, or has known me, you know that I love football. And if you REALLY know me, you know I love the Dallas Cowboys. I have loved them since I was a small child sitting on the sofa on a Sunday afternoon watching TV with Daddy. I don’t just watch the game. Like my dad, I have been known to yell at the TV, jump up and yell, scream, get excited, and I have even been known to break a chair.

Well, Saturday evening I had the opportunity to watch the Dallas Cowboys take on the Houston Texans in a preseason battle for the Governor’s Cup. My husband and I along with his brother and sister-in-law, drove up to Houston and took in the game at Reliant Stadium. We had seats way up in the nose bleed section. Section 616, Row E, Seats 1, 2, 3, & 4.

Unfortunately the Cowboys had a bad night. They weren’t synced and had a terrible game. They lost to the Texans 23-7.

Hopefully, their season will begin on a better note next week.

Here’s to the 2010 NFL season. Hope it’s a good one.

Internet

We finally have RELIABLE internet!

We got fed up with Clearwire. It worked fine for the first year and then they decided to change their bandwidth and the service was spotty at best. The several times we have called to complain they said that we are 1 mile outside of their access area and there was nothing they could do. We told them we would have to find another provider but they didn’t want us to do that.

I just couldn’t see continuing to pay $32 a month for internet service when we only have it for maybe a week or two out of that month.

Today we had GTek come out and put up a dish/antenna on our roof for their internet service. It was $150 for the installation and will be $45 a month but it will be well worth it to have internet now whenever we need it and want it.

I am completely hooked on it. I love to go to my digital scrapbook sites, photography sites, email, Facebook, etc. There’s always something to see and do. How nice it is to be able to do it now!