• Life In General,  Miscellaneous

    Down On The Farm

      I think I have mentioned my new rain barrel once or twice right?   🙂  Well the class to build this wonder was held at Bluebird Gap Farm in Hampton, Virginia.  They had some every day farm critters so after our rain barrel adventure, I took my camera and snapped a few. The white peacock, before showtime……. you saw the after, but just in case you missed it…. He, or she, calmly stepped off the stump….walked up to where I was standing and viola!  And modeled, twirling several times before they let out this bizarre type call, folded the feathers back into place and walked back to the stump.  Kind of surreal actually….but so glad…

  • Life In General,  Miscellaneous

    Thanks Reba and Lacey!

    Wouldn’t you love to have farm fresh eggs available to you?  A couple of months ago a friend at work offered me just that.  He and his wife had purchased some land and built a house a couple of years ago.  In the fall of last year, they decided to add chickens to the mix.  And with chickens, you hope to get eggs…..they were not disappointed.   But the eggs kept coming….quicker than he or his wife could eat them.  So they each went in to work one day and asked their friends if anyone would be interested in free eggs from free roaming,  organically fed chickens.  The only stipulation, you had to bring your own…