A post with REAL pictures

I can't remember my last post with real pictures. I am not a fan of taking or posting pictures of myself, but I decided to get used to it because I don't want to be a hypocrite, and I expect all of my blogging friends to post pictures of themselves and what they are doing on occasion. I need to see my friends--This means you!

We spent some time working in the yard this weekend, we still have lots more to do, but it is coming along. Here is a really dorky picture of me working in the garden, or rather, me opening my new gardening gloves...that is Skyler weed-wacking in the background. My fauxhawk fell down as a result of all my hard work; a small price to pay.

I really want to have an urban farm, and I guess we sort of do. I just wish I had a goat or a miniature donkey to add to the family...too bad we are not zoned for those kinds of animals. Drake (our Airedale) kind of looks like a sheep, so I guess he and Sanora (our little Border Collie) will have to do.

See our little enclosed garden area with covered archway that Sean and his brother Grady built several years ago? They built the shed too, and most of the building materials were recycled from the deck we tore down in our backyard. The corrugated, sheet-metal roofing came from a barn that was being torn down in Lindon. There was a sign that said all the wood and roofing were free for the taking to anyone who wanted to tear it apart. Our friends Ty and Linda scoped out the barn find; thanks guys! Most of the fencing around the garden also came from the wood of the same barn.

On the far right, the little A frame structure is our new chicken ark that Sean and Forrest built. It takes two people to lift it with those longish wood pieces and we move it around the yard so the chickens can peck for bugs and so their poop doesn't ruin the lawn. There will be a couple close-ups further down in the post.

What you can't see is our pond (we have seven fish) and the fireplace area...I'll have Sean take pictures of those aspects another time.

Look at those weeds in the left corner. They are gone now, thank goodness.

My hard working fam, minus Corinne and including Sean behind the camera :). We finally got most of our veggies in--we have had so much rain and a couple of very busy weekends so the planting was postponed again and again.

The chicken ark! The two sections which make up the sides (the upper "door" and lower "door") are completely removable. The stairs are raised with an ingenious little rope-lever system Sean devised, but the chickens are still figuring it out...so we put them up top ourselves at night to keep them warm and safe from the elements.

Our four lovely hens (Little Red, Goldie, Tid Bit, and Yet) are seven weeks old today. In celebration, we fed them worms from the garden and they ran around clucking and chasing each other. I called it chicken football (it makes as much sense as American football).

The front top "door" covering the nesting and roosting area also comes off by using those two metal handles and lifting it up and out. I love my chicken ark! My husband is the best.

This concludes my post. Hope you have a fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!