Spring has arrived!

...and things are happening in Oregon.  The only excuse I can think of for our blog hiatus is that we've had nothing noteworthy to blog about!  Small things happened over the winter, but it went by so fast that we're still trying to figure out what they were...

Well, whatever...we've been busy this month anyway.  Our garden is shooting up--this photo is from several weeks ago.  We started our first seeds in April, but had a frost just days afterward.  The peas and radishes seem to be stronger for it, but we had to replant the carrots and whatever else didn't sprout (note to self: must write notes when planting tiny seeds into random places in the garden).

 We harvested our first radishes last weekend.  They were small, but they were yummy.

 

Matt finished his chicken coop a few weeks ago and he picked up four laying hens.  We've named three of them "Red" (#1, 2, and 3) and the large cross "the bitch".  Okra loves them, I'm pretty sure he thinks they are his personal playthings.  "The bitch" protects the rest of the hens from Okra.  As far as I can tell, Okra's scared of her.

It's not quite finished yet, but looks pretty good.  I love the cedar shingles.

The bounty!  We get three to four eggs a day, and "the bitch" lays these gigantic eggs, the one in the upper left of this carton is her biggest so far...