Beach Saturdays....and a Bit About Chickens

One of our favorite things to do these days is every Saturday afternoon, we head to the beach! Since it´s only about a 35-40 minute drive, we´ve made it an every weekend thing, this going on for the last couple of months! There´s a restaurant we go to that has great prices and good food and they´ll let us shower off in their outdoor shower and use the facilities when we eat there. We go late afternoon, most of the time getting there around 4:30pm and into the ocean we go! SUCH a nice time of day to relax and play in the waves. Don´t have to worry about sunblock and there´s just something about the water and the lighting at that time of day that is so relaxing. We play around until dark and sometimes even a little after and the kids shower off, change into dry clothes and we sit down for a nice beachfront dinner (although you can´t see the beach at that point but you can hear the waves!) They have all these nice tree lamps and hanging lights with big rustic tables and we sit there and eat with our feet in the sand. I hope we can continue to do this for a while because it´s something us and the kids really look forward to. Julian and Matthew are really able to handle the waves amazingly well now so it´s much more fun than stressful like it was when they were little. Rainy season is upon us though and soon we´ll have to cut back I´m sure. We´re enjoying it for now!!!

Now about the chickens. We now have 3 roosters and 3 hens and two of the roosters are now old enough to sing their song in the morning! Sometimes it´s in the middle of the night which isn´t cool but usually it´s around 6am when we´re getting up anyway. Hoping to have some eggs soon which we´ll let hatch into baby chicks instead of eating them at first at least. All three pairs of chickens are different types of chickens. There are the ones that for fattening and production that grow super fast and super big, the typical patio homegrown free range chickens and these others that are quite ugly and not that nice and they don´t have feathers on their necks and never will! I don´t have pictures of the bare necked ones but the other ones you´ll see below. They´re fun to have and roam free in our yard!

 

This little chick is the big white one you see above!!!