Happy Birthday Ken. We got to spend the afternoon and evening with Ken and Mom as they came to Brielle's game and then to the house for a cook-out. I made Ken a salad spoon and Fork set out of maple(I think) but I did not take a picture of them. Brielle wrote a poem about Ken's love of acting, it was beautiful and made Ken tear up a bit.
Today was the Laconia Rotary transition dinner which signifies the completion of the currents president's term(Cassandra) and the start of the incoming Presidents(John ) term. He is wearing the crown and holding up his drink. We brought Brielle with us and she played by the water most of the evening. In the picture she looks ready to become the new President as she has picked up the Gavel they use to run the meetings. Cassandra is heavily involved in Rotary. She is now the assistant District Governor overseeing six Rotary clubs and will hold that title for the next three years. She takes a trip to a developing country yearly to work on water, building, medical, and or polio projects all of which is paid for by Rotary. If anyone ever has any interest in helping out with any of these kinds of projects contact Cassandra and she will tell you how you can be involved. Don't ask me what Gail is looking for in her blouse, she and her husband Craig are always the wild ones at the Rotary events.
We had Cody, Ciara and Kyle over for a ham dinner and then a couple games of horse shoes. Sorry about the picture quality it was getting dark so any action was making it blurry.
We got the rest of our chick order on Saturday so now we have our first Rhode Island Reds. We also got more meat hens for a total of sixteen, six of which where originally going to be someone Else's but they decided not to raise any. The chicks are growing quickly especially the meat birds which are twice the size of the other chicks already! The other chicks are flying up to the edge of the twelve inch boards that I have surrounding them.
Brielle is holding a keat(baby guinea), it looks just like a chick.
urday from Rand's in Plymouth. We originally ordered some meat chickens and an assortment of layers(Rhode Island Reds, Black Australorps, Araucana, and Barred Rocks) but when we went to pick up part of our order there where some Guinea keats so we got six of them. One has died, not sure why, but all the others are doing ok so far. After we got them home I showed Cassandra a picture of an adult Guinea and she was not to excited about what they are going to look like. I have also heard they can be unfriendly and noisy. We are going to try and handle them a lot to help them be as tame as possible. I wanted them because they are supposed to be great for ridding your property of ticks and other bugs. The white headed bird is a picture of an adult guinea that I got from the internet, very pretty... If they end up being a problem I also read that they have all dark meat and are good eating.
