They have become attached. They hate being alone and when you let them out of their cage they follow you around. We had to moving them out of the cages with the chicks because they like to spill the water and the poor chicks were always wet. But everybody got lonely so we kind of moved them back. 
Their feet have grown the fastest, they are like small trees.
They are being very slow in their growth process, I guess this is the way of hostas. I am inpatient when it comes to plants, I want them to grow and I wants them to grow NOW. Their slowness may be the result of having no sun. It has rained everyday here for the past week or more. I was informed today that we have broken the record for the most rain in the month of April in the history of America! 
We did color eggs this year, after a very short discussion about if we were going to or not. Easter would not be the same without eggs. The red heads liked it too, especially when they got one with their name on it. Dylan even got to do two eggs but he kept trying to eat things that he was not supposed to.
The oscar egg did not turn out ugly like it was supposed to.
The ducks love them, they keep preening them and they sleep all bunched up. The barred rock have been my dream breed. They were what I wanted when we first got chickens but we were able to get golden buffs from a friend instead. 
Now I have to think up nine new names. Any suggestions?
Meet Ping and Pong. They are Rouen ducks and the cutest things ever. Supposedly, there is a male and a female but we wont know which is which until they get older. 
I thought that, and as it says in the beginning of the book, that it was written my S. Morgenstren and abridged by William Goldman. In the intro he told how his grandfather read it to him while he was sick (just like the movie) and that while reading his grandfather left out the boring parts. So this was the "good parts version". Goldman had notes in the book telling which parts he cut out, a quick summery of what those parts were and why he cut them. He also had bits of his life story that he experienced through out the abridgment process, he talked about his son and his wife. I thought that this was all good and true until the end. On the cover of our book it read "including the first chapter of the long lost sequel Buttercup's Baby". All well and good. I get to the intro of the sequel and Goldman starts telling why there is only one chapter. He said it was because the Morgenstren estate got involved and he ran into legal problems with them. Blah blah, Goldman wasn't allowed to abridge it so they got Stephen King to do it. I thought that this was awesome, I like Stephen King. But I have never heard of Buttercup's Baby by Stephen King so I googled it. Hahaha was I in for a surprise. It is all a lie! All of it!!! S. Morgenstren doesn't exist. Simon Morgenstren is a pseudonym. William Goldman is S. Morgenstren!! Goldman wrote the whole thing and just made it look like he abridged it. His grandfather never read it to him, he never cut anything out, he doesn't even have a son. What got me was the hits of truth he did put in, things about his screen plays (he wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). The real reason why there is only one chapter of Buttercup's Baby is because he never wrote the rest. I was so surprised.
I waited till the last minuet to get pictures (because I forgot to earlier). So the moon is setting in these pictures. 
It looked bigger when it first came up and it was extra bright all night.We really need to teach them new songs. They did this for twenty minuts! And just for the record, they don't help clean. Most of the time they are the cause of the messes.
"We are rockers!"
Today I was trying to figure out the relationship between Einstein and Pretty boy (the new rooster) and it is confusing beyond belief. So maybe writing it down will help me sort it out. 
Oscar the reigning king of the coop - Einstein hatched two roosters and four hens (Floyd, Chippie, Maggie, Sophie, Thor, and Donald)
- We got rid of the roosters (Floyd and Chippie) to the Amish we got milk from
-We got rid of the banny rooster and some hens
- Elvis died
- Squirt and Gwen didn't make it through the winter.
- Another hen went broody
This lead to that blah blah blah Pretty Boy shows up unannounced. I think I'm more confused now than when I started.
Pretty Boy, Oscars arch rival
