Our Easter Egger chicken laid her first egg! It was easy to tell it was hers because it was a pretty light blue color. We've been waiting for her to lay another one, but so far nothing. They tend to take longer to lay than other breeds, so we just have to be patient. Right now we are getting about 2-3 eggs a day!
Our friend's delivery of day old silkies and frizzle chickens came in, so we went over and picked out a few. We got one of each color of the silkies and one frizzle. They are so cute and fluffy! The black one died a few days later, so now we have three more chicks to add to the second coop when they are big enough.
As I was driving I looked at my rear view mirror and saw this guy hanging out. It scared me to death! At least it was on the outside of the car this time. The spiders are crazy where we are! I am trying to tell myself that they must be munching on a lot of mosquitoes, which is good but dang.
A friend from Rett's primary class started a lemonade stand from his front porch to raise money for a lego set he has been dyyyyying to get. We stopped by to support him and he was the best salesman ever! He asked each of us what we wanted and offered us all the baked goodies he could. It was so cute to see all the neighbors stopping by to check on what he was up to. That is one downside to living farther out like we are, there isn't really a place for us to do something like that.
We took the boat out to do a little fishing and "going fast" which is the boys' favorite part of being in the boat. I caught a catfish and that was about it. But the boys loved exploring the sandbar.
One Sunday before church I came out to check on the chickens and found this snake caught in the electric fence! It looked like he had gone in to catch something to eat (not the chickens, he was way too little for them) and then after he ate his stomach was too big to fit through the mesh! So he got stuck and then caught in the electric fence.
James had to go inside the coop to pull him out since his stomach was too big to pull him through.
We were kind of sad that he died, look how beautiful his colors were!
James the snake wrangler taking the snake into the house for further examination.
We got out the florida reptile book and found this picture of the exact snake, a bluestripe garter snake.
The description said that they get to be 4 feet long, so James wanted to measure him to see if he was full grown. He was only 2 feet long.
After church we did a little dissecting to see what he had eaten. We all took guessed about what it was, Anthony and James guessed a mouse and I guessed a frog. I was right, a frog.
The boys playing together nicely. Definitely deserves a picture!
I finally finished painting our kitchen cabinets!! It looks sooooo much better. I will definitely be doing touch ups for awhile, but overall I am happy with how it turned out. It makes such a difference with how light and open the kitchen feels. Here is a picture of what it looked like before we bought it:
The finished product:
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