Nilsson News

Happy Labor Day ya'll!  Amen to all the previous posts.  This is definitely the lucious harvest season and we have been enjoying a few tastey things- mostly watermelon.  It is really SO good!  Last week we set up our watermelon stand.  Emerson had some kale to sell, Addy made watermelon themed cupcakes and I helped Eliza make a delicious watermelon limeade slushie.  We had about fifteen melons and we had all but four sold in the first hour and a half.  We shut down early because the wind was picking up pretty bad.  It was a fun adventure!  We have over twenty melons ready to sell again.

The excitement as of late, has been with our chickens.  We had one hen who decided to go broody (sits constantly on the eggs).  Origianlly, she was sitting on 7 eggs but the rest of the hens continued to lay eggs on top of her so she ended up with 22 eggs.  We kept track on the calendar and after 21 days we were really watching her.  One evening, I went out to check on her and discovered that a chick had hatched but it had been killed by the chickens.  Evidence was on the mom's beak so I made a rash decision and removed all the eggs from the nest.  We had borrowed an incubator from a friend and placed all the eggs inside.  After about four days, one hatched!  We were so excited but worried because it was a pretty lonely chick, peeping quite noisily.  Last night, right before going to bed, we got to watch a second chick hatch!  So cool!

Tomorrow we will be canning peaches and enjoying the last day of summer.  School starts up for us the following day.  It has been a fun but oh too short of a summer!