And then there were.... more?

Over the past week Sunshine has laid four eggs and spends most of her time keeping them cozy and warm. We checked the first three and they don't seem to have been fertilized, but we'll keep an eye on them...

Happy Halloween!

We had a little Halloween party at the house this weekend with Carolyn, Christopher, Jules and PJ. For dessert we had Jello brains and dirty worms--- yum!

Newest members of the flock

This is Snowbell and Sparkle-- our two new parakeets who bring the aviary population up to six. Patrick picked out and named Snowbell and she (?) is a total albino with pink eyes. Brian picked out and named Sparkle and she (again, gender isn't easy to tell at their age) is a light powder blue with a faint yellow head. It took the birds just a couple of days to get accustomed to the gang. Their wings were clipped at the store so they crawl up the walls to get to the branches but you can see how they watch the other birds flying around that they want to, too ; )

Build it and they will fly...

We decided it would be really nice to build an aviary for our parakeets so they would have room to fly around. It turned out to be a great project: the boys learned to measure, saw, hammer and use a staple gun.

And finally we let the parakeets go in their new home. They are very happy there!

Garden '07

We had our first vegetable garden two years ago and we've decided to give it another try this year. We went to the nursery and got tomatoes, eggplant, sweet potatoes, and romaine lettuce already sprouted. We planted two rows of seeds for sweet peas and you can see they're coming up already. Brian demonstrates here how to water the new garden using the rocket-spray water toy-- works very nicely.