The Stress of Selling

I read this and thought how true, "most people sell because of the well-known four D’s: death, departure, divorce and debt, but there is another: downscaling." The lady that sold the house to us was the death factor, her husband passed away and she sold her house to be closer to family. As for us, it's downscaling,…

New Spring Chicks

Bo's mom gave him 41 eggs about 3 weeks ago to hatch since the last batch of incubator hatching chicks in September of last year was a success. Our bathroom became a place where we place the incubator. The temperature has to be a consistency of around 100 Fahrenheit, the eggs started hatching so Bo…

Quails Calling

It has been about 3 weeks since I took these photos of the quails. They live outside and have heating lamp to keep them warm at night. Ideally I think we need to live in a farm, I started looking last year but couldn't get Bo and Lee sold on the idea that living in…

Snow

It snowed on Tuesday January 28th, and it's our first snow since February 2012. This was Lee first time using her snowboard that she received as a Christmas gift in 2011. As I'm listing these dates, I can't believe it is 2014 already, time has flew by.  I never knew the snow could be this…

4 week old quails

We finally moved the 4 week old quails to their new home. Max is excited, this made me think of the tweety bird and the pussycat, but in Max and the quails' case, it must be the Lao version. I got up early this morning to sew drape for the bird cage, hopefully it will…

Quail Hatching Day 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkUavokdcGY One of Bo's friends gave him a dozen quail eggs about 2.5 weeks ago and the first six finally hatched yesterday.  It takes 17 days for quail eggs to hatch and the babies look healthy. The eggs are tiny in comparison to the chicken eggs. Max was curious, and not surprised because of his…

Nesting Season

I'm not as discipline  in posting as I used to be, and it seems like I'm catching up in posting my photos.  Some of these photos were taken almost three weeks ago,  but I guess posting it late is better than never. It's nesting season for the birds in our area, this mother Robin built…

Snow in March

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/60899161 w=560&h=315] Click here to watch this video on YouTube I woke up early this morning to photograph my garden and was hoping to see a morning sunrise but instead it was snowing.  The snow lasted for about an hour and long enough for me to photograph and shoot video. My Peach blossom. I planted…

Jack Dempsey Update

I'm getting the hang of my new camera, and I shot this video last night.  I was able to shoot the video with ISO 3200, which made the video a lot lighter and brighter. [vimeo https://vimeo.com/60310041 w=560&h=315] Click here to watch this video on YouTube We have two 55 gallon fish tanks, and a 30 gallon…

Meet Maple

Maple is from Kentucky and she comes to visit one of our neighbors every year, her owner is our neighbor's daughter. Bo, Lee and Max met Maple before but this is my first time meeting her. She is a Weimaraner just like max, and a bit smaller in size. She is a beauty. Maple is…

End of 2012

I hope it's not too late to write a post for the last week of 2012.  As I have mentioned in my previous post that I was very sick, and my second sister had asked me to go buy a car with her on December 27th.  The thought of getting $100 bird feed money is…

Homemade Pizza for Dinner

Lee and I have been wanting to make homemade pizza for awhile and the first batch was awful.  I think it looked more like pan pizza rather than a normal homemade pizza. We have come a long way since then, and have gotten a lot better, but I still don't know how to toss pizza…

The Last Few Flowers

I'm looking forward to a long weekend, and left work early today.  It's nice to see daylight when I got home, something that I took for granted during the long Summer days. I still have a few flowers in my front yard, not something that you would typically see in a cold Autumn evening. I…

Halloween 2012

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/52591715 w=515&h=290] Click here to watch this video on YouTube This year Lee decided at the last minute to dress up for Halloween, and I guess she wasn't the only one because we waited 30 minutes in line to get her costume.   She was Friday the 13th Miss Voorhees, Lee was clueless as to…

Lee’s Eleventh Birthday Party

[vimeo https://vimeo.com/51967381 w=515&h=290] Click here to watch this video on YouTube Lee's Birthday Party was last Saturday.  We had a full house, and of course it was a Lao Birthday party that started before 1 pm, and lasted until 7 pm. Lee turned 11, and I have noticed that she has grown so much this year.…