Okay it is not the worst! 
But my body hurts!
I have been planting and moving plants and working on all parts of the yard. 

We have had a lot to do in this new house adventure!

This is our third year in our house and the first spring/summer I would say we worked so hard just to do yard clean up. We had to take down a broken down shed and fix the other shed.
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Then we had a million weed trees to dig up. There was also the 5 foot weed garden growing on the north side of the property. UGH!  The next year we got married and that kind of took up most of the spring/summer. I was able to plant a flower garden and a vegetable garden and both are looking really good this year! I am so excited.

We put in a nice fire pit and I can't wait to use it! 
​I love spring!

I can't wait to see how things look in a few weeks!!!
Stay tuned...

So I got baby chicks for myself for mother's day! I'm a chick mama now!
My BFF Sara and her husband gifted us with the most beautiful chicken coop ever! It was a wedding gift and I LOVE IT! Sara's husband Nate built it himself. It is so awesome. I waited until this spring to get chickens and I couldn't be more excited!

I got four chicks, we are allowed three. I just thought I would err on the side of caution... Plus they are small breeds, like two chickens = one really. Two are Polish Chickens and two are Silkies, one gray and one buff colored. I LOVE THEM!

I decided they are to be called the Spice Girls, and their names are Poppy (Gray Silkie), Ginger (Buff Silkie)... and the two Polish are Rosemarie, Rosie for short, and Marjoram or Marjie for short. There is a space for planing things on the coop so I am going to fill it with all kinds of herbs for the chickens to eat, hence the Spice Girls!

Wednesday, October 25th at approximately 1:13 pm I discovered the first egg! Isn't it beautiful!!!! I was so excited! I discovered later that Poppy is the one laying these beauties. She is doing a great job, we have been getting about one egg a day now.

Now if I can just keep them alive through the winter!

I like winter.
But in MN it can last way too long to end. We get those "false springs" too that trick you into thinking spring has officially sprung and then the next day it snows again. I always fall for it! Not so much because I learn things the hard way (which I do) but more because I just want to believe it is truly spring.
I LOVE SPRING!
Anyway, last weekend it was kinda warm... like 37 degrees or so above freezing. In MN that is considered "kinda warm" and it is perfectly normal to see folks tinkering around outside. BTW... at like 40 degrees, in the spring, MN folks will toss off their jackets and run around in shorts like it is hot. So it really was "kinda warm," at least in the sun anyway...

So while I am patiently waiting to be able to start really digging in the dirt I have started doing some yard clean up! I pulled out all the old winter greens from the outdoor planters and I scooped dog poop for HOURS! And then I decided to REFRESH THE GARDEN SHED!!! 

I was inspired by Katrina from homegrown.garden, when I stumbled across her  Garden Shed Makeover video. I don't watch you tube very often unless I am looking for something specific, but the internet gremlins were listening or something and I found myself watching a bunch of her videos about her Allotment in England! So cool!! She is brilliant and darling BTW! After the garden shed makeover video I immediately went to clean out our shed!

lI am planning to add a few more things and then give the whole thing a coat of paint. I would like to add a new door with maybe a plexiglass front so there is more light. I asked Mr. Chris if he would help me with that, so stay tuned.

I think it is off to a good start and ready for when we can start planting!
I will share more when it is painted!
​TTFN!