Before and After

The front yard is done! 

Before:

After:

We bought the little bedding plants, lavender and rosemary and our landlord got us tulip bulbs, the rhododendron and two hydrangeas. 

We finally slowed down our egg eating enough to collect a full dozen! 

(friends and family in Vancouver - can you please keep your old egg cartons for us?)

Abby and Ryan have been coming into the chicken yard with us in the morning to help check for eggs. They're really good with the chickens - they just walk around them and ignore them, and the chickens don't seem to care about the dogs. 

The naughtier of these two likes to jump up into the hutch-coop and squeeze through the tiny hole into the nest boxes to sniff around when we aren't looking....guess which one that is...

The chickens haven't escaped since we blocked off the hole they were jumping through, so no need for wing clipping. Now when we walk in there they all run to us looking for worms and usually they let us touch them and pick them up.