- Weekly iPhone Roundup {2.18 - 2.24}

 What an eventful week! So my aunt surprised us with 6 Easter Egger chicken over the weekend and they are the CUTEST! Then I made the mistake of calling Buchheit's Saturday and finding out that they had all kinds of baby chicks! I ended up getting 8 more chicks. I know, that's kind of a lot at once, but I couldn't help myself. 

I ended up getting 2 Barred Rock, 2 Dominique, 2 Polish Crested and last, but definitely not least... 2 Silkies!! We have a white little roo, so I got a white Silkie and a buff colored Silkie. Little known fact about me, Silkies are my favorite chickens in the world, so it tickled me to death to find baby Silkies. I wanted to take them all, no joke.

Then out of nowhere Tuesday evening, our white Polish Crested got very lethargic. She was just standing off to herself, not eating or drinking, just sleeping. I got her out and held her and fed her some chick started mixed with water. I would scrape a small amount on her beak until she would finally eat it. Then we dripped some sugar water on her beak, which she ended up drinking. It took a few hours for her to come around, but thank God she did. 

By the end of the night she was standing in the food and eating herself!

I guess that's all for now, here are the pics from the week (there's a lot):

McDonald's for the win Saturday night.

It was so dead in Perryville Sunday night, like more than usual.

Here are the beautiful little Easter Egger chicks!

I love them so much.

Here are the little chicks in their new home for the sex several weeks.

I unintentionally had 4 white cheddar items in my cart Monday. Definitely wasn't planned.

Canning jars galore at Buchheits!

Oh how I wanted every single one of these baby ducklings.

Here's the new additions.

I also grabbed a big pack of ammo from Walmart for our new .22 handguns that my mom and step dad got LaVaughn and myself for Christmas.

Here are all the little chicks together. It's hard to tell them apart in this pic.

The little black ones are the Barred Rock and Dominique. The grey and white is one of the Polish Crested, the other Polish and two Silkies are mixed in there somewhere.

Look how much my lemon sprouts are growing! I topped them off with more soil earlier this week, but I think they look amazin.

Here's our little white Polish Crested. She was so pitiful.

She also looks very hateful.

But she's a sweet little baby chick.

I went for a ride Wednesday to try and find a Bald Eagle that I saw on the drive home Monday. I didn't find it, unfortunately.

I drove down C highway, which is pictured here. There's always Bald Eagles in this location.

Weekly iPhone Roundup {10.30 - 11.4}

 I think I need to start by saying that I hate having "iPhone" in the title, but cell phone seems so dated anymore, even though that's still what it is, lol. And I mean, it's not a lie, I do have an iPhone. It's an XR that I got for free on my aunt and uncles cell phone plan, so it's not like I'm being flashy and saying, "Oh look at me, I have the newest iPhone 14 Pro Max!" I mean, don't get me wrong, I would love to have one, but no way in hell I'm paying that kinda money for a phone... no thanks. 

Anyways, since the winter months are starting to roll in I'm going to spend less time outdoors taking photos. Plus there's going to be a lot of travel and exhaustion this holiday season due to work and just shopping for the holidays, so I'm not going to be dragging my camera around a whole lot. I will, however, have my phone on me and will take pictures with that.

I feel like my brain isn't working properly. We raked the yard yesterday and it took well over 2 hours of strenuous, non-stop raking. I was so tired and sore last night. Raking really uses a lot of muscles that I don't normally use. It didn't help that the leaves were like 6-8 inches deep. I think we ended up with 9 huge piles of leaves by the end of the day. I took pics, so you can see for yourself.

With that being said, here are a hand full of photos that I've taken over the past week. Enjoy!

Such a perfect view of a fall evening out of the window.

Some wild ducks from the local lake came to visit Sunday evening.

I got extremely close before the cat scared them off... by chasing them.

This cool dude dressed as a Pirate on Halloween at Walmart.

The drive home Monday. Always such a pretty sunset.

This is South on Highway 67, it has amazing scenery.

Last highway sunset for good measure.

This was yet another beautiful sunset on St. Francis river.

The old bridge here gave prettier views of the river.

This was from my walk one day this week, I think it was Wednesday. That's the culty neighbors property on the other side of the lake.

Our entire road is just so pretty.

The Intex Ultra Frame pool looks so sad with pools of water and leaves on the cover.

Okay, so this is a picture from the ISS window when I was stationed there... not really, obviously. Since I don't have a cell phone mount for my telescope, I have to hold my camera up to the lens to try and get a decent picture.

I have my Barlow lens attached as well, so that makes it extra hard to get a decent photo. I just love how well defined the craters of the moon are with the Barlow lens attached.

This was the yard before it was raked. Minus that little pile that I started on in the center.

This is the other side. We do not have a flat yard, so there are really deep sections of leaves.

This was after all the leaves were raked into piles. It's amazing how green the grass was in places!

The other side. We did still have to rake the upper right corner by the fence still, but we did finish it all last night.

Max was a huge help, of course.

The fun and scary part, burning the leaves!

We got brave and did more than one at once.

I got some really cool slow-mo videos of the fire, but didn't feel like trying and failing to upload a video here without uploading to YouTube first and then embedding.

And lastly, the picture from today with all but 3 piles burned. Not it looks like some type of creepy alien markings all over the yard. Should be fun to stomp around in when I'm cleaning the glider's drop trays and wheels later.

A day for every number...

It was such a lovely day today -- fantastic way to start off the first day of September! LaVaughn and I spent a lot of time outdoors today soaking up the sun. You just can't resist days when the temperature is in the upper 70s.

I don't know that I blogged about it, but a produce guy that sits up where I work ended up giving me a lot of free produce last month and the month before. Well he gave us loads of watermelons, one of which sat on the counter for weeks. We knew it had to be mushy inside, so we decided to give it to the chickens. Of course, LaVaughn with her theatrics had to throw it up and burst it on the ground. It made for a nice effect and scattered enough for all the chickens, so really we all win.

Of course, picture taking wouldn't be complete without a cat or two. I got some really adorable pictures of Clementine, but a couple of my love bug, Cersei, as well.

And last, but not least, I took some new pictures of Douglas today. He is just the cutest little thing! Super chubby too, but he's getting all of moms milk, so I didn't really expect anything less. Like always, this will be my last post for the rest of the weekend. Loooong labor day work weekend coming up.

-Megan

Sleepy Fletcher:

Chickens and ducks:

Clementine:

More chickens:

More Clems:

Tig:

Cersei:

Logan:

Douglas: