this is me exited about PANCAKES!I don't know what's wrong with me. I am just exited about...everything! The baby is coming in a month and a week or two, Ryan now has both sprinkler systems working, I sold some stuff in my shops on Etsy ( Shortcake Vintage and The Ruby Aviary Art), and I dunno, I guess I am just happy.
Yesterday was a particularly awesome day, and not just because it started with pancakes. After pancakes we dinked around and then headed to my friend Andrea's BEAUTIFUL north valley ranch home, (which I wish in retrospect I had thought to take pictures of) and talked to her about becoming real estate moguls (an idea Ryan's been bumping around), childbirth ("painful", from her report, with a laugh), and teaching English abroad (an idea Ryan and I both have been bumping around for awhile). Then she took us out on a tour of her beautiful property, backed up to the asequia, dotted with sunflowers, and out to the chicken coup where she showed us the new Ameracauna chooks (baby chickens, not quite chicks or full on hens or roosters) and told us we could HAVE SOME!
(this isn't the best picture, the camera was on a weird setting and the little darlins would't keep still!)
Of course I was DELIGHTED, and Ryan actually said YES! So before he could change his mind I quickly caught two! I am actually pretty good as catching and taming chickens,but after repeated attempts at catching a second hen, and catching two roosters instead, I think I wound up with a rooster anyway. Which is fine for now, because they are only about three months old or so I would guess now, and the little guy won't start crowing if he is in fact a rooster for another coupla months,and by that point we will already being woken up at the crack of dawn by a squalling young beastie.
I also took a coupla other pictures of the yard, the hollyhocks and rose that just bloomed,
my newly self watering sun garden (which still looks a little sparse, I know, give it a little time to catch up)
the chicken coop
and the new lawn flamingo Ryan adorably placed in front of the tiki lounge cuddling with the OTHER lawn flamingo
speaking of Ryan, as I was walking into the shop to take a picture of the new plants we chose
to go into the new raised bed garden (in contruction, pics of raised beds soon) I noticed he's been doing his own version of nesting in his shop 
(newly organized tools)oh yes, we also got some other goodies from Andrea, including some awesome kid stuff from her 6 year old son Leo
ok so now I think this post is getting a little rambly, so I will end it abruptly with this hillarious picture of my chicken Blanche, who I am sure would upload this as her profile picture if she was on Facebook.
the the-the thaaat's all folks!
have a great weekend!
(we are going camping! hooray)
xx jess
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