well, I survived the Christmas Blues by keeping busy, busy, busy !!

missing my mom, my brother, and my best friend, all smiling down at me from Heaven. . .

and my kids, all so far away... I miss them so much.



so, today was chores all day, raking, sweeping, cleaning cages, and setting up new nestboxes (finished TEN, wowzers!!)

then, DH and I plucked half-a-dozen birds, and listened to music, just feeling companionable, and enjoying each other.

hubby made a GIANT kettle of soup stock, baked bread, and made a special cake for us to share...

the turkeys finished hatching their eggs this morning, and there's 13 little cheepers... and two hens are busy with their 17 new babies...

plus, all the eggs in the incubator hatched on Christmas Eve, so there's 40 more chickie babies, and we set them up in a brooder box in the shelter, as it's been cold at night (well, NOT cold like you Northerners have, but too chilly for beebies to be outdoors in a jungle coop, which is mostly made of screening.)

life goes on, and the rhythms of farming ebb and flow, and I am content.