A Day to Celebrate!

We have an egg! One of our Black Sex-Link market birds laid the first egg of our flock today! So roughly it breaks down to a $350 egg. It is the cutest little brown egg! I am so excited for the girls!
We will need to check the nest boxes several times a day now. We will also need to check the goat barn since the hens have taken to hanging out in there during the day.

In the nest box

Hanging out in the goat barn

Oh my gosh! It's like Christmas! I gotta go check the coop again!

Front Porch Progress

I had the plants all planted in time for Country Girl's softball team party. We got the gates on the deck done in time too.  In addition to building a picnic table and putting up a screen door, both of which we painted barn red (what other color is there, anyway?). It was quite a  whirlwind of activity. The party was tons of fun. The girls all got to try and catch a chicken. That was pretty hilarious. Since the yard was ready and we had plenty of food leftover, we hosted the family 2 days later for the Fourth of July cookout. I made my first ever beef brisket on the grill. It was fabulous. The view from the house of the fireworks was amazing. You never knew where to look. There were fireworks going off all around us. Just beautiful. The kids got to do sparklers and we had purchased a few small fireworks to do in the driveway. The rest of the evening was spent sitting around our fire pit. It was a great night.