Well the weather is finally starting to warm up so we decided to do a wiener roast Friday night.  And, we got to try out the new chairs we bought at Cabelas last fall. It sounds silly, but sometime we get hungry for grilled hot dogs.  They were very good.  After the flames have died down and there are mostly coals left, we do our marshmallows.  It’s a challenge to get them toasty brown on the outside and soft on the inside without them catching fire or falling off into the fire.  Ken had better luck than me this time.

I believe this was Danger’s first wiener roast and she’s learning the rules.  Ken had to swat her off the table a couple of times.  Just like kids, animal have to test the water to see how far they can go without getting into trouble.  Danger thought she would be safe on the bench, but there wasn’t any food on the bench so eventually she jumped down.

Ken has been cleaning up and rearranging the machine shed, so I started in on another flower garden.  A lot of the phlox has winter kill so I’m trimming the dead stuff off the plants.  Dried phlox is very prickly.  I got about half of it done so far.

We got up early and headed to Beatrice Saturday morning.  Since the weather is suppose to be warmer this next week, we decided it was a good time to get some more baby chicks. We thought a variety would be good and I wanted a couple of hens that would lay green and blue eggs.  We got 2 Americana, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Red Layers, 2 Silver Lace Wyndott and at the last minute Ken decided he wanted 2 Bantams.  His gray bantam rooster is getting old and if something happens to him Ken won’t have anybody to fight with:)  There’s no guarantee that one or both of the bantam’s he picked out will be a rooster.  One of them that he picked out does have feathers on his feet. 

 Right now the chicks are under a heat lamp.

 Ken spent the rest of Saturday mowing the yard and I started planting the garden.  :Lucky me, I got to smell the lilacs while as I working.

The place always looks like a park when Ken gets done mowing.  It’s  really beautiful. The Canada Cherry tree in the back yard is blooming and it smells so good.