by Hope
Life has really slowed down for us. I am spending 4-6 hours a day working on work or finding work or thinking about work, and then the rest is spent on schooling or sports with the kids. Everyone is really happy with this move. But we’ve also had some excitement…
History Buff with our lone rooster – name Milo after my beloved dog.
Princess and Sea Cadet with our 25 chicks…living in our kitchen!
Yes, we’ve got chickens! 24 pullets and 1 rooster. Our hosts ordered 450 new chicks for the farm and after filling their garage offered to let us care for some. We are all thrilled! We are learning a lot, enjoying playing with them and look forward to the day we can move them outside…three more weeks or so.
The hosts are covering all costs, we are just putting in the time. So it’s a win-win. The kids are literally spending hours playing with them, digging worms for their dessert and reading up on caring for them and their predators we have to be careful of.
And our hosts say that once they start laying eggs in the fall, we can help sell them at our local farmer’s market where they will take them. Fun times all around!
Hope is a creative, solutions-focused business manager helping clients grow their business and work more efficiently by leveraging expertise in project management, digital marketing, & tech solutions. She’s recently become an empty nester as her 5 foster/adoptive kids have spread their wings. She lives with her 5 dogs in a small town in NE Georgia and prefers the mountains to the beaches any day. She struggles with the travel bug and is doing her best to help each of her kids as their finish schooling and become independent (but it’s hard!) She has run her own consulting company for almost twenty years! Hope began sharing her journey with the BAD community in the Spring of 2015 and feels like she has finally in a place to really focus on making wise financial decisions.
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Love baby chicks. What a great learning opportunity!