I've Gone Country A blog about a city girl learning a whole new world

Our friends have ventured into new territory.  They have free range chickens.  Or is it that they have hens?  Anyway, I am still learning which terminology to use.  These hens give them PLENTY of eggs.  I am thankful for that, because they share them with us.

They are beautiful!  One hen lays a double yoke egg most every time.  Another one lays the small light colored egg.  Each one is unique.

I find it interesting that I think eggs are beautiful. I wonder if that comes with getting older.  I can’t recall thinking eggs were beautiful before….well maybe one I had colored for Easter.

It is most fascinating that a hen, which is not that big herself, can have an egg like that everyday.

Amazing.

I think that we just might have to have some hens this spring too. 

I hope all our neighbors like eggs……

So…. we made the first step to what I consider country living about a year ago.

We bought four cows from my brother and we put them on our farm.  Ok, so maybe four cows is not considered much of a farm.  But, if you have always lived in the city and only owned dogs, turtles, birds, rabbits, cats, hamsters, baby ducks, and hermit crabs, then a cow is considered a real farm animal. Four of them…in a pasture…sure smells like a farm…and is considered a farm by me.

My husband has prepared great pasture land with beautiful fencing.  He continues to amaze me with his creativity.  He visualizes things and then he makes them a reality.

I on the other hand….have great ideas (or at least I think they are great) and I just let them stay ideas.

I seem to get stuck on how to proceed.

As I spend time in the pasture, I find that I am seeing a lot of -life- lessons while watching the animals.  I came up with another one of my bright ideas and thought….hey, I should have a blog to put all this on.

I started sharing the stories with my family through e-mails and they said…hey, you should start a blog.

This time I have decided to put this idea into reality. Thanks to my son and his great computer skills, I am blogging!

They say women have a lot more words to use up then men do….so I plan to use mine up everyday.

And by the way….we now have nine cows, three goats, two donkeys and two ponies!  And of course our dog Ellie Mae.