A little more Chicago

First let me tell you that I got a new toy.  I needed it..I really did. I bought a Dell mini, which is a tiny laptop or netbook. It is wireless, and it will also do Bluetooth, which will allow us to get internet from the cell phone when we travel.

Isn’t it cute? I bought the flower skin to put on, which I think is just soooooo pretty.  I am doing this blog while sitting on the front porch with my coffee. Our friend, Donna, is here visiting from southern Illinois.

The big news in the Possum Manor front is that Carrie is moving to Oklahoma.  She will be leaving Possum Manor West in September, after the garden harvest. We are sad, but hope she will enjoy going back to where she once lived.  She is taking her three dogs and one cat, but not the chickens.  So, big dilemma, what to do with the chickens. There was no way I was just giving them away, and I could not handle a dozen here, so I put on my thinking cap.  Here is what I came up with, with the help of Ann and our up mountain neighbor Maria.  I am going to take the Silkies and the two Barr Rocks. Maria is going to take the rest of them. She already has chickens and she and her husband are building a new, winter proof coop.  I can relax knowing the chickens will have a good home, and they will never be eaten.

As for mine, I found a guy who builds these coops that can actually be moved. I am hoping that by next spring we could level out a place to put the coop and also fence it in to give them more room. For now we will have the coop pictured below. It is 12 feet long and 4 feet high. It is plenty big for six chickens. The guy said one woman wanted to put 12 Rhode Island Reds in one, and he would not sell it to her. The poor chickens would have been crowded.  He even puts a hook in the house area, so that in the winter I can hang a light, and they can be warm. I am excited. I only hope that five chickens is enough for Cecil. 

Ok, back to Chicago.  This was in Millennium Park.  These faces would look like a photograph, and then they would move. About every ten minutes they would pucker up and spit water down on the kids. They were having a blast. Olivia and her friend Ava are down there squeeling. I have other photos too, but I have not asked my sister for permission to put Olivia on the blog. I am funny that way, I always get permission.