2nd round of chicks

Spring is in the air. Our first batch of chicks hatched March 20th. Our second batch of chicks has started hatching today. Our third, and probably final for this year, will be hatched in the chicken coop versus the incubator where the previous two have hatched at some point over the next 10 days. Those are a little more variable because there are both chicken and guinea eggs being brooded by 7 guineas and one black australorp chicken. DS3 and DH put chicken eggs under her along with the guinea eggs she was sitting on so we'll see what appears.

The first round produced 10 cute chicks that are now being house in our larger chick box in the garage. The second round has 2 hatched and 3 in the process of hatching. We'll see what we get there. One of the ones that has hatched probably won't survive, but we always live in hope around here.

Other news at our homestead is fur being shed by the pound. Cibola is constantly shedding and so are the horses. We are finally seeing their none bleached out colors and they are much darker than we ever though. It's funny looking at them because the new hair is coming in a dark tan color and the winter coat is a light beige.

The only other thing I'm up to is finishing applications for two different seminary programs (Luther in St. Paul and Wartburg in Dubuque) along with scholarship and candidacy applications. All of these are due by May 1 and I'm pushing to have everything in so I can possibly start in the Fall. I'm currently taking an online course through Wartburg on discerning your call, which is helping me to see if online classes work for me along with figuring out the nature of my call.

I hope all is well for my friends and family. Who knows maybe Mavis and Maude will update me on their lives as well.

-Myrtle, whose knitting and spinning has fallen by the wayside as I work on other things.