Loving The Farm Life

We may have almost every room in the house to unpack except the kitchen, but we have been enjoying our life in the country. We are climbing over boxes in our bedroom, bathrooms and offices, but that hasn't slowed down the planning of the garden! We are thrilled to be back in the land where they sell cotton hull compost. We are trying to control the size of our garden. It doesn't need to be humongous the first year. But we do need room for plenty of tom's, tomatillos, peppers of all kinds, pumpkins, and CORN! I really want a few rows of corn. And gourds. The kind that look cool dried and possibly painted.

As for wildlife around our farm, Todd or I have seen or heard:
Frogs
Toads
Cicadas
The tail of a red fox
Crawdads (itty bitty teeny tiny!)
Barn swallows
Dragon flies
Super huge walking sticks (on steroids, these thing are huge)
Owls
Possum
Moles
Hummingbird
Squirrels
(snakes)
Earthworms! Oh how I have missed them!
LOTS of dogs


We have taken plenty of time to have fun. We've had a few friends over. We've gone to the closing pool party for the last volleyball game of the season in the old hood. We went out to celebrate Mitch's birthday. We've been to the local farmers market. There was a pinball competition where we made a special appearance. We have had Oklahoma Joe's Z-man sandwiches, and Sheridan's custard. We had a real home warming dinner last night--super yummy prime rib, the last one until Christmas day. It already feels like home and we are barely settled in! We are dreaming of landscaping designs and future changes we want to make around our home and property.

We haven't planned out exactly where the chicken coop is going to go, but we have time before next spring. I HAVE been thinking of chicky names. How about you? What suggested names do you have for some of my future chickens?!?