Here's a picture of Jonas last week, along with a cow blankie from Aunt Betty Blandford and an Alaskan moose from Ruth's cousin Brian Blandford in Nome. Gotta love that double chin!
The kids always want to hold him and the younger ones at least want to be forever stuffing a pacifier in his mouth. He must want it, surely! I fear he may not walk until he is too heavy for big brothers and sisters to hold him! Peter didn't want to hold him until the umbilical cord fell off! Too gross, I guess.
About the time Jonas arrived on the scene, we had another fun event. We got six Barred Rock pullets. I'm posting some pix of them as well. And my dad was kind enough to fence in a pen in the barn where we are keeping them. When they're grown they'll be gray and white spotted and they'll lay brown eggs, starting around September.
We also had several new kittens but they haven't fared so well. The mother's aren't the most attentive, so while there were about 4 or 5 total (the number is disputed), we seem to be down to just one lone kitten. Kind of sad considering how much love was lavished on them, but I have no plans to keep any kittens.
Lastly, we got our garden in. I'm excited to have such a big garden. You see three sections and one whole section is strawberries. It doesn't look like much right now, but hopefully it will be overflowing with good things later this summer! (Yes, that's one of our cats that thinks it's a litter box. Chris put up a nice fence all the way around to put a stop to that.)
