Pictures of the Garden, Greenhouse, Compost Pile Area and Chicken Pen Finally

 The new outside of the chicken pen.  I really wish we could free range them, but there are so many stray dogs around here all the time, I would be afraid to.  They seem happy and they are safe, so that makes me happy.

 We will expand their pen where all these leaves are.  We need to move the leaves into the compost pile and commandeer some more kennel panels.  It should be quite a big area for them when we can expand their territory.

 Ms. Aggie came over to beg from us.  : )  She is such a sweetie.

 The inside of the chicken coop.  If you can tell this was a bathroom at one time.  Perfect for chickens to poop in.  LOL!  These are the nest boxes.

Here is the ramp for them to go up to the roost.  I think Wayne did pretty well with this design.  Now you can tell its a bathroom, right.  Can't fool you with the big bathtub under the roost. 

Homemade Almond Butter

I made homemade almond butter today.  It was super easy and so much cheaper than buying $13 raw organic almond butter in a jar.  Why when I can buy a pound of raw organic almonds for $6.49 a pound, well, they are on sale right now at the co-op, I might buy a bit more of them before the sale ends and put them in the freezer.  I have come to love raw almond butter, good for a diabetic diet, especially when a lot of my vices have been cut off.  I usually dip carrots, celery, or a couple squares of 88% chocolate in it.  Mmmm.....

I didn't add anything or roast them, etc., just straight raw almond butter from raw almonds.  I wish I had tried it sooner, but I didn't have the processor before now either, so perfect timing right?

So, I haven't posted new pics of the chicken coop, etc, I keep forgetting, lots to do around here.  I will get them and we are going to be building the milking stand for the goats next week.  We need to do a Marley clipping again before it gets super cold.  Oh, and we need to put a gate on half of the shed where Yogurt will be kidding, plus the landlord and I discussed where the garden is going to go and the compost pile.  He is also designing a rabbit hutch, because he'd like to have some meat rabbits, which I think is great, and something I wanted to do as well.  I did want to have rabbits in a movable rabbit tractor I guess you would call it.   It has slats in the bottom so they can't dig out, but they can still get fresh grass.