Killer Robot Clan

My back and shoulder are doing much better, the physical therapy has helped immensely. I am learning to move correctly, with proper posture, so that I won’t re-injure myself in the future. It is amazing how many more muscles you use when you stand up and sit up straight, lol. My muscles are sore by the end of each day! But I can feel my core muscles growing stronger and that whole area re-stabilizing, so its very cool.

Andrew has been busy writing a research paper for work. He is going to try to get it finished by the end of next week. After his paper is accepted he will earn another level of security certification and get a raise, so its a pretty big deal. He’s gotten behind with his email while he’s been working on it, so if you haven’t heard from him now you know why.

The boys are counting the days until the end of school. Gavyn gets the next two weeks without any homework while they do PACT testing. Matthew has Jr. Prom coming up and I’m having to threaten him with bodily harm to get him to ask anyone out. The boys have been spending thier afternoons this week recording themselves stick fighting. I assume some of this footage will appear on YouTube at some point.

Tommorrow my parents and little brother are coming up for a Mother’s Day brunch. We’re going to have waffles, bacon, and scrambled eggs, all of which Andrew can cook. Which means I don’t have to do anything The four of us are going to go to Sunset Beach in the afternoon and do a bunch of nothing by the sea. Gavyn made me a cool ceramic pin at school.

I bought two full grown chickens from a man down the road (pictures below). One is a Silver Laced Wynadotte and the other is a cross between a game hen and a Rhode Island Red. I got the red hen because with the game hen blood in her she should be a good brooder. I was going to have her set the clutch of guinea eggs I’ve got coming. Unfortunately the game cross also enables her to fly very well, and my chicken coop is a thirty foot tall tabacco barn. I’ll never catch her.

So now we have fresh eggs on a daily basis. These two girls give me anywhere from a dozen to two dozen eggs a week. Next year I will have fourteen laying hens, including these two. I know this because I finally got around to sexing and banding this year’s flock. So, family and friends, expect lots of free eggs in 2009.

The goose eggs should hatch in the next couple of days. I have low expectations. If none of them hatch I’ll just buy goslings next year.

I contemplated a late garden, but I am going to hold off until next year as previously planned. Our soil is very sandy and needs a lot of work to get it ready for an organic garden. I’m not willing to take the short-cuts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in order to get a garden this year.

That’s about it…