"Goin' to the chapel and we're gonna get ma-a-a-ried..."

"Wow!" you say. "Are you really blogging? We thought you'd forgotten all about your two avid fans!" No such luck! I've just been really busy, emptying out all the penny jars, collecting egg money, making plane reservations, making ID card reservations, making city hall reservations, finding a brave and desperate soul willing to take on 4 dogs, 1.5 cats, and 90 chickens for 4 days - have you guessed it yet? Yes! After a long successful scientific career, a short catastrophic real estate career, and several years of semi-retired chicken farming, I will finally achieve my life's goal of becoming a military wife, while actually staying married to my own lovely wife! (Haha - just joking about life's goal, but the benefits are astounding, just for being who I have been for the past 13 years!) We have to jump through a few hoops, but, well, small price to pay, so San Rafael, here we come!

Meanwhile, back at the farm...

We sold Silver to a friend. We hope he's warming up to his new ladies. Brother misses him, but the girls are all his now - he'd better get busy!

We have 18 more eggs in the incubator - due September 21, the day after we get back from Calif.

Brownie laid her first egg - chocolate brown! Yay!

We got another gorgeous rooster from Vera's. Disposition as yet uncertain. (DumTeDumDum.....)

The meat birds are 5 weeks old, huge and hungry. The local restaurant tried 2 of them. We'll see if they take 2 per week.

Otherwise, all's calm.