Our humble home

I've been holding out of pics of the house because we're not done yet. We've only primered the walls so we haven't put up any pictures or decorations. But here is what we're starting with. Notice our headboard made of pillows for our bed!
Also the entry way wall is the wrong yellow. But I'm showing off my cool homemade hat rack!

Halloween

Okay, these are totally chesy pictures of Colt and Charley. They are just standing there posing for the camera. AND I have to defend myself with Colt's mummy costume. It looked much cooler in real life! He wore it for school on Friday, then for his schools trunk or treat that night. Then on saturday for a birthday/halloween party. Then for trick or treating. And each time, he would stand there while I would wrap him all up in different shreds of sheet. It was fun and he loved putting it on. And every time, he got a ton of compliments. So, anyway, the pics don't show you how cool and mummified he really looked.
Also, Charley's classic dracula costume: Nathans Grandma sewed it for him when he was 2!! So that costume was handmade 30 years ago. And some of you may remember Colt wearing it a couple Halloweens ago. Thanks Melody! That thing is like, such a huge hit!

Anza weather

Okay so I'm excited for the coolness up here. Although the weather has been SUPER unpredictable. For a couple days it will be stormy thundery and rainy (which I'm loving for the moment), then it will be beautiful and blue for a week. Anyway, the nights are always really cool. My husband makes fun of me for looking like I'm about to go skiing when I get dressed for bed!
So here are the boys playing in the ditch thingy like in the middle of our yard, after a big rainstorm a few weeks ago.

coyote proofing

So far our chickens have been roaming around during the day. They usually stick together in the same areas. At night they go in their coupe. Have you heard that saying, "go home to roost" or something like that? Anyway, they do. As soon as it starts getting dark, the chickens all find their way back to their coupe and jump up on their roost. That's where they sleep at night. Its funny because their roost literally is like a 4" wide piece of wood. You can use anything like that for a roost. And if the chickens don't have a designated roost, they will hop up into a tree and sleep on the branch. That happened a couple times when their coupe door was closed so they couldn't get in when it was getting dark.
So I have been digging this trench, a square perimeter where we will put up a fence for the chickens. This will be their roaming yard. You have to dig into the ground, then put the fence into the trench so coyotes won't be able to dig under it at night. I know, its a confusing visual. Anyway, this is what I've been doing. And its not easy. Its really hard rocky ground. But then again, I'm Bad-A.

Chickens

Okay, so it dawned on me that I know the life of our chickies, but other people probably don't. So here are some pics (And hey, does anybody know how to make it so I can put a description under each picture?)

They first started out as little tiny baby fuzzy chicks. Then they eventually grew into our big white clucking hens. Now, these chickens are Laying chickens. That means they don't need no man to lay an egg! But that also means that you wouldn't want to eat these chickens. If you are raising chickens for the meat you need to get meat chickens.

Anyway, here they are from tiny fuzzy chicks in an aquarium to now clucking around Anza...

Horses

Okay, so our neighbor has 6 horses. In fact, she's a really nice lady from England and she has a cool accent. She has show horses that she rode in the 1996 olympics! Isn't that cool? So we go up to the horses and feed them carrots... The black horse's name is Gus Gus, its Colt's fave.
That white lining around the fence is electric fence, so the horses don't jump the fences. I shocked myself on it of course. But it didn't really hurt because I'm so bad-A.

Our view from our front gate