monday: day 1 Christmas break

Its been a productive day so far! I finished editing my personal essay that is a requirement for my senior portfolio (It was too long). Then I tried the recipe for Donkey Cookies (recipe from Farmgirl_dk of On the way to Critter Farm). My chickens loved them. Thanks for the recipe! I also made some oatmeal because I've heard that chickens like that too. They do.

It seems like there's less outside for them to munch on now that its winter and they get tired of their plain chicken feed. Now I have some supplements to their diet of chicken feed: oatmeal, Donkey Cookies, diced apples, grated carrots, cracked corn (their favorite), and boiled eggs (apparently chickens love them, but its important to make sure they are fully cooked so the girls don't develop a taste for their own raw eggs).

After my chicken treat experiments I tidied up the backyard. That includes scooping dog poop (Ew. I am the only person who ever does that and I'm not such a huge fan of the dog. I just like to not step in it.), and raking over half of the yard. Fir trees are messy. I would've rinsed the "poop deck", as my mom likes to call it (our back deck is covered in chicken poop.) but the water is off to the outside faucets for the winter. Its been freezing cold around here lately.

Last night it finally snowed a little after weeks of ice cold and not a cloud in the sky. Its much warmer today and the snow is gone. I'm ready for a blizzard! Not literally, but I'd love a lot more snow.

Now its time to get cleaned up and work on my scholarship calendar. Yuck.