Egg-cellent !

We are back from Oregon and had a great time visiting with my parents and seeing my sisters and all my nieces and nephews. I took so many picture that it will take me a day or two to organize them and get them uploaded.

Meanwhile we've had some other exciting news! Aside from lots of bounty from our garden, we were notified by our neighbors who were helping to take care of our chickens that they started to lay about a day or two before we left to come home!

We had 2 beautiful little brown eggs waiting for us in the fridge followed by another one yesterday and one today!!! I'm so excited! Today I actually witnessed an egg being laid. "Buffy" our Buff Orpington, was out roaming with the rest of the flock, when she suddenly ran back into the coop and settled down under the next box. I think we startled her because she started to run back out into the yard then quickly changed her mind (much like a person deciding that, no, they really couldn't wait to use the bathroom) and she scuttled back in. A half hour later I checked in on her again. She puffed up real big and I heard a small "plop" sound. We all looked down and there it was! Another brown egg, still a bit wet from the "bloom" and all warm. A few minutes later she emerged from the coop, all triumphant and started clucking and making quite a bit of noise. Too funny! I'm pretty sure she is the only one laying, she looks bigger and more mature than the other girls, but I'm sure they are not long behind. So now we have 4 eggs! I think we are going to let the kids blow the first 2 eggs and save them as a memento. Here are those first 2 eggs and also a pic of the veggies from our garden. I love this mini-farm life!