just a few weeks older..

growing up too quickly.

on the run.

these little guys practically look like miniature chickens now. no longer cute and fluffy, they have their feathers, and the chicken-walk down. i let them roam around outside of their shed-which they will be allowed to roam free as soon as they are big enough-for the first time today. they went crazy. imagine lots of little chickens flitting about, literally running while flapping their wings, hoping they'd somehow fly. did you know that chickens can fly? growing up, i had the misconception that they couldn't...but they're perching birds. crazy, eh?
p.s. they run like raptors from "jurassic park". (you didn't hear me say that...they'd be offended, i'm sure.)

can we keep it?

chicken nuggets.

ranging free. 

sunrise.

mornings at the farm are simply splendid. even after a stormy night, the air is water-saturated yet clean, and the breeze light and sweet. humidity must be factored into the equation, but you should also imagine barn swallows nesting in the faded red barn, tucked away from the damp air-adding a certain sweetness to even a more-so wet and rainy day. 

while i was taking a stroll in the field earlier, i noticed a large object in the field next to ours. out of curiosity, i stepped a little closer. a coyote? i bet that's what has been eating the adult chickens. the little babies are growing like crazy right now, almost double their original size. i'd like to add pictures sometime. they are living in what used to be the pig's barn, in which they should stay safe from that coyote that was roaming about earlier. 

it's not that i am particularly fond of coyotes, but there is definitely something that is serene and slightly awesome about them. maybe next it shows its facey around here, i can catch him on camera. 

3 of my 26 babies.

decisions decisions.

every time that i come to that place in life where i have to make decisions, my brain has a melt-down and i can't think logically. call it weird or whatever, but it always happens to me in transitions. usually sitting and thinking it through when nobody else is around is calming because it gives me time to put my head on straight, talk to the Lord, and then cry it off for a few minutes. i used to bite my nails, but since that helps nothing, i improved my method to lying down and breathing in and breathing out. haha. maybe it's a girl thing, but if i pet a dog or a cat in the process, that usually helps too. too bad the only dog we have smells funny.
by tomorrow, i should have my books for classes and by tomorrow evening, i might have started catching up on assignments. Probably nearly 200 pgs. in books need to be read, three separate short essays need to be written, and thirty minutes on hands-on work need to be done.
did i mention that i lost my gauges? sad day. now i have to wear those ugly spike ones until i either find the one i lost or buy new ones. probably not buy new ones unless i randomly get given money for some odd job. back to ze spikes.