Yet II

Dumpling - Millie Fleur bantam cochin

Doody Toe Burrito Peeper - my current fav. Plymouth barred rock- just a baby but will be standard size so she can chase all the other girls around

Miss Fluffy Butt - White Silkie - silkies have blue skin

I try to keep some of the feather arouns her eyes trimmed so she can see. She walks into a lot of things - other chickens, walls, people. etc.

Nugget, she is the head pecking boss.

Of course there is a pirate flag and chickens on the chicken coop which was a shed that Andy converted 1/3 of for my hen house. Don't tell him but sooner or later the girls are taking over the whole shed.

Little and Oreo. Oreo is Tad's chicken and she is apparently from Germany. Of course my son has a German Jew chicken. Of course. They are both bantam cochins. Little is a splash and Oreo is a black mottled.

Frick and Frack are on the left. Frack is the one on the far left and Frick is in the middle. Little is on the right. I bought Frick and Frack online when I was high on painkillers. I didn't know I had bought them until they showed up. I was kind of hoping maybe I had bought an elephant or baby pygmy hippo while I was stoned out of my mind. Frick and Frack are joined at the hip and total thieves.

Fajita and Corky. Black and Partridge silkies. I hatched these guys from eggs! We don't know what they are sex-wise and won't until they either crow or lay an egg. There was four that I hatched but a raccoon got two of them. Fucker.

Front of the house

Side yard - you can see cow pasture through the trees on the left side

Side yard and behind is all looking at cow pasture

Little and Oreo siting on the milk crate, Dumpling (multi colored) Nugget and Frick and Frack

Burrito

Fajita and Corky hanging out in the dog house.

Chicken run. I made if myself! Andy cringes but we'll get it fixed properly. For now it works.

I swear I didn't buy any animal. Sort of.

Kitchen/dining. Think I posted already?

Back of house

Master bathroom. Also a horrible horrible deep maroon/burgandy that was awful.

Master Bedroom

Family room

Kitchen

Kitchen

So there is a glimpse of what it's like at the new house. One of these days I'll figure out how to post pictures into a pretty blogpost like Andy does. For now it's not high on the priority list. Life is good here at the Not a Zoo. We still laugh at least once everyday. I don't know that a person can or should ask for more than that.

Love on!

Yet

It's not a zoo.....yet. We bought a house back in December of 2010. It is a nice house that we got at a great price as it was a foreclosure. She sits on almost an acre (a house can be a girl, right?) Our neighbor on one side and behind us is a large farm with about 80 acres and bunches of cows.

I bought chickens shortly after moving in. We still have Stinky the cat and Marley and Bubba. And five fish. That's totally not a zoo. It's not a zoo! Andy keeps trying to say it is but it isn't. At least not yet.

I decided it's time to start a new house blog since I guess we aren't using the old one anymore. Speaking of the old house, it's so sad. The new tenants have let all the landscaping die. I swear I won't to go kick them out. All that money and all that work and all that love and they just let it all die. Bastards.

I can't post any pictures with this first entry because I don't have any. My computer crashed recently and I lost EVERYTHING. All my documents and all my photos. Never again will there be no backup.

I guess I can go grab a few photos. Hold on!


And
Three Koi fish currently living in a tuperware type container in my office until Andy digs me a fish pond in the front yard.

Kitchen and dining room. Fench doors to backyard and to the right you can see the other front door. My office is on the other side of the dining room.

Dining room and french doors out to backyard

Marley. He thinks the backyard is great.

Still terrified of men, poor puppy.

Some of my orchids I have in my office. Mom and I are going to the orchid show in Chicago at the end of the month and an orchid auction in a couple of weeks. Fun!



Kitchen. I just painted the backsplash and island which were an awful blood maroon red. Ugh.

Orchids

Stinky. The worlds worst secretary but he works for free.

I'll post more in a second entry because I can never figure out how to upload photos without it messing up the rest of the crap.