Geode State Park

Now that it is finally nice outside, we decided to get out a bit and explore what the area has to offer. We found a famous park called Geode State Park that's famous for all its Geode rocks. In the middle of this park there is a huge, beautiful lake and around the lake is a trial.I wanted to go on the lake trail Jonny was a little hesitant about it and I didn't know why until about a mile in he said, " you know this is a 7 mile hike right?" WHAT was my reaction, none the less WE FINISHED that trail and it was beautiful cool day :) but I do not think we will be making it again for a while.

It was so nice there was benches all along the trail with beautiful lookouts, the lake reminded me of Fontana Lake. There was even a little beach area that you can swim in, we saw lots of fishing boats and people paddle boarding !! It made me wish we had our kayak, or something that water was calling my name !!!!  All along the trial I was looking for the geode rocks, I never found one but maybe one day ill come across one for sure. This was such a fun day trip that Jonny and I got to spend time together and enjoy the outdoors :) It was sooooooo extremely green, its hard to believe this is the same place as it was during winter. The lucky think is this park is only 40 min away so we can go camping or hiking any time we want :)

A Famers Life For Us

This week we did something crazy, Jonny always talks about how his family has chickens up in Minnesota and how he wants to try and raise some, well we decided to take the leap...  we looked up what chickens laid the best and most eggs and we were off to the farm store :). Before we left Jonny and I went out back and started building a little cage coop for the chickens to stay.( Jonny had a whole plan to build them a big wooden Chickens coop/ castle)

  we got 3 different kinds of chicks, California white, Australorps and Barred Rock. We have to admit it we were a little nervous about our dog wanting to eat the little chicks up, but she could not be more excited about the little new additions :) her new favorite thing to do is just to sit in front of there box and watch them. running from side to side trying to get the best view. When we let her outside she is so excited to get back inside and resume her watching post. ( its cute, now we know that he will be good with kids... we think).
We HOPE that all the chicks are girls/ hens but I do think we have at least one Rooster....... :( I do not want a rooster for many reasons 1- they crow and wake me up in the A.M, and i like my sleep. 2- They are mean, and have sharp claws. and 3- THEY DON'T LAY EGGS... so they are useless, we will see how long he lasts if he is a boy. People keep asking me if I am going to name the chicks, and the answer is "no" we did name them all KFC though. The man in the store asked Jonny if I was going to name them, then he proceeded to tell me, " let chickens be chickens." So that is what I'm going to do. :)
We don't know much about chickens, but we will have to learn quick because these things grow so fast I swear you can watch them grow! so far a week in we have not killed any of them yet, we had a close call by almost frying them with a heat lamp, but they are alive and well. I cant wait till we get our first egg, there will diffidently be a post about that one :)