The Sisterhood

Not even sure why I love this photo, but I do.  Maybe the feeling of sisterhood that these three share, so different in personality and age but all so very comfortable and accepting of each other.  I like the way the light hits their brows, but shades the mystery in their eyes underneath...Oh, and I always love a photo that showcases dog spit on my windows :-)

The golden egg

OK not golden, but almost as expensive.  FINALLY our first egg from the chickens!!!  I am beyond ecstatic, the first offering from my hens, way to go girls.  It maybe small, but if we calculate how much money and time we have put into building the chicken coop and pen it is solid gold to us :-)
Owning your own backyard hens is a lifestyle, a way of enjoying something fresh and wonderful, it is never going be a retirement investment.
Hopefully tomorrow there will be another so Mick and I don't have to scramble this one.

I love you Jimmy

9am had me out on the porch grilling Jimmy Nardello peppers on the BBQ.  These are the most amazing roasting, frying, grilling, EATING peppers I've ever tasted.  Mick picked a shopping bag full of them this weekend, there was no way I was wasting these beauties.  They will be canned in olive oil to be enjoyed all winter, yum, thank you Jimmy.

With the rain

Come the most unusual things, like this baby Snapping Turtle that wandered into the yard.  We have a lot of ponds around us, most are dried up with the lack of rain this summer, when the skies finally poured forth rain today this fellow ended up outside the dog run gate.  Barking from Hope and Cutter alerted me to what I thought was a toad, instead 2 inches of armored shell.  I kept him around for a couple of hours to watch and photographed, then slipped him into the muddy area of what use to be a good sized pond.  Hopefully he will not come back, would hate for the dogs to maul him.