Diggin’ Daniel

Last week, we were able to spend a few days with Paul’s parents while we were between meetings.  The kids spent a lot of time gathering eggs and feeding the chickens.  The chickens are largely free-range, so they like to eat grubs and worms.  After finding this out, the kids were all about digging worms and grubs out of the garden area (since no plants were still growing there, this was actually okay).  At any given point in the day, you could find at least one of the kids with a shovel in hand and a bucket full of worms close by.

Daniel was cracking us up as he dug.  The shovel was taller than he was, and he hefted if while huffing and puffing, and occasionally stopping to say, “Whew!”  He actually found several worms, to his great delight.

Every kid needs to be able to get down and dig in the dirt for worms.  It builds character or something like that! :)

Egg Hunting

One of the most entertaining things to do at Papa and Grandma’s farm is to gather the eggs from the multitude of chickens.  Gathering eggs can be used as leverage to speed along any unpleasant task, such as school, school, and more school. :)  Seriously – the kids look forward to the daily egg hunts, as well as feeding the chickens grubs and table scraps. Yech!  I am quit content to stand back and take pictures.  :)

These are a few of the cherished pets on the farm. 

Just outside of one of the chicken coops, they were all gathered to feed the chickens and snatch their eggs. :)

This little Barred Rock chicken was quite fascinated by my clicking camera.  She kept getting so close it couldn’t focus.  Definitely not camera shy, this one.

All in all, we had a good haul.  Fresh eggs for breakfast and baking, not to mention all the fun we had gathering them!