First eggs!!

Many of you might recall we inherited chickens on Thanksgiving. Today I found our first eggs in the nest box! I'm sure Penguin the black chicken laid one of them this morning. The other not sure if it was Penguin or Light bulb.

Oh and our hellebores you saw the H. niger blooming already. Four others have buds on them already!

Manny's gone....

Last night after eating his dinner Manny was drinking from the kitchen sink. I can't recall seeing him since then until this morning. He usually scratches on the window glass to be let in several times in the middle of the night. Meg is away for her daughter's graduation in Wilmington.

Anyway a friend was here this morning hunting deer. He called me on his way out that a white cat was dead on the main road near our road. I'd asked him earlier if he'd seen Manny this morning and he had not. The main road is at least a quarter mile away and Manny rarely left the woods here. So I just finished burying him.

 Her is Manny shortly after we got the chickens! He loved to watch them and would even join me in the pen when feeding them. He'd even jump up into the coop.

 Grumpy was our male cat before Manny he used to sit in this bird feeder and watch the birds. Manny never caught any birds it might be because he was cross-eyed.

Here he is licking his nose. He'll be greatly missed he loved everyone and never met a stranger. This leaves us with Valentine the girl kitty. She'll miss stealing his food I'm sure.