Happy Anniversary to Us

Tonight we celebrated our anniversary…sort of…by popping open a bottle of champagne that my sister gave us for an anniversary gift which was actually July 18th but we are just now getting around to it. We then had a nice relaxing evening…sort of. We barbecued some salmon patties from Whole Foods which were delicious, along with some rice and green salad

and we picked some strawberries from the garden which we are thoroughly enjoying right now.

For some reason the birds are not eating them all like they did last year and it's so fun to go out and pick strawberries each evening.

They were delicious with our champagne. Happy 32nd anniversary to us! (Wow, that's a long time!)

We have been having very pleasant, warm summer evenings so we enjoy sitting outside (with an occasion thunder storm rolling in…but then a rainbow.)

The peace has been slightly disrupted, however, with two roosters causing havoc with our flock.

One of our neighbors got them off of Craig's List but they do not have a chicken coop or a way to contain them so they keep coming over to our hen house - roosters are attracted to hens, you know…If we let our chickens out of the coop, which we do for a few hours each evening

the white rooster will fight with our rooster, thus cock fight! (I won't put a picture up of that!) The red rooster is pretty nice but it terrorizes our hens by trying to mate with them and our rooster spends all his time trying to protect them for him! Needless to say, all involved get worked up into a tizzy and it is not peaceful around here at all! The neighbors came over to retrieve them again tonight so lets keep our fingers crossed that they don't return again

again, and again, and again…such is life in the county.

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