chicken run

Hey All,

This is the first direct blog entry. The last few we've patched together from email updates we sent out to the family with some pics and video's spliced in. Hopefully, we'll try and do more on the blog later. I guess that might happen as soon as telecom gets off their butts and adds our phone account to their database.

Anyway, we've just added another chicken to the mix yesterday. We haven't quite figured out a name for her yet but we're thinking either puff, krispies, blanche (due to her seductive way of laying down), or brrrrreaaaaap (we had to let coco throw in her name suggestions too). Anyway, here are a couple video's of her release, escape and recapture prior to placing her in the coop.

Run chicken run!!!

Gotcha!

In other news this week, we've done a fair amount of planting in the garden. We've now got peas, beans, leaks, squash, courgettes (that's zucchini to you folks back home), spinach, tomatoes, rocket (sorry, arugula), brocolli, cauliflower, drunken woman lettuce (for the name, of course), basil, red onions, and a dead cucumber plant (didn't make it a week, poor thing)

we also just got back from a nice walk through the towns botanical garden. It's really amazing. There is a 25 acre section devoted to rhododendrons that was just spectacular. Here's a few of the thousand flower pictures that drea took while we were in there.

The flowers from a huge purple rhododendron bush had fallen all over the side of this hill.

And with great fanfare, I'd like to introduce you all to our new (yet very old) car. It's a 1988 Toyota Sprinter (and surprisingly enough, when driving through town last week we saw 4 more of these, same year too)


What the???

Love to all,

Dave and Andrea