Fall in Full Swing

     Today is the last soccer game of the year. Thank God! I'm soccered right out for awhile.  Brodey plays at ten and a banquet to follow (free lunch). Then we're done 'til spring.  It's going to be another busy day, but I hope we'll get some work and play done around here too. 

   Like I said soccer is at ten, but my truck and I and maybe the big boys are going to go pick up a remnant piece of carpet Becky bought for us to put in the living room.  It's a pretty nice piece and pretty good price.  It should keep the floor a little warmer on our toes this winter not to mention that we weren't really crazy about the baby crawling around on our super hard and rough floor in the living room.  So I'm going to go pick up that and then meet Becky at the soccer fields.

     When we get home from soccer we are going to start decorating for fall.  The kids had a blast doing that last year.  We'll go to the farmer's market and get some pumpkins to make Jack O' Lanterns (the pumpkins I planted in the garden were a complete failure) and we're going to make a scare crow too.  Last year we just used some old hay from our hay barn.  We all had fun doing it I think.

    

     Later this afternoon our friends Frank and Mandy and their three kids might come over to visit and for dinner too. We really enjoy having them as friends.  It's nice when you have friends that you realize are truly there for you no matter what.  We are truly blessed to know them. I got Becky, Frank and Mandy on my team all by coaching T-Ball.  Pretty good investment I would say.

     I've really been day dreaming a lot about the possibilities that could become of Red Rooster Ranch.  I've got to sit down and make a business plan.  I'm terribly scatter brained in life and will need my exact intentions and plans wrote down in order to stay focused and on task.  There is a lot of things still that need to be done before the snow flies here. I'm still interested in getting a small hoophouse built to house the hens in for the winter, but I"m  not sure I have the resources to get it done before the baby or winter.  We shall see about it.  I really don't want to just put them back in the chicken coop for the winter.  I mean it worked okay for last year's girls, but it gets mighty cold and egg production should be better if they are in a hot house. I've got several plans for one including the one pictured below from Polyface Farms.  Obviously mine won't be as big as that, but I'm not sure how big I want it.  I could get by with a relatively small one. There are only thirty-five hens.  But I intend to grow next year too so......I'm not sure what I'm doing yet.  I'll keep you posted.  I'll see if I can post more pics tonight....