Chickens and stuff

These little chicks are growing every day, and today I decided they were big enough to move from our garage to their outside chicken run and coop.  They love to scratch around for tasty tidbits.

We are slowly coming up with names for our cheery chickens.

Cleopatra

Oprah

??? (any suggestions?)

Umm..., I forget.  But she does have a name... 

Spencer will be thrilled to have the chicks out of the garage.

In other news, I have been baking up a storm lately!  In the last week, I have made about 90 red velvet cupcakes (one practice batch followed by two more batches for a wedding open house), a mini red velvet heart cake, zucchini bread, and banana bread -- all from scratch.

 I've also done two batches of fresh salsa.

Here's one batch of salsa and the red velvet cake with homemade cream cheese frosting.

Yesterday I picked a box of peaches (courtesy of a lady in my grandma's ward).

They should be ready for canning in a day or two.  I have never canned anything by myself, but it sounds like peaches are fairly easy to do.  We'll see.

There is NO WAY I could have done all this if I had been teaching right now.  I even have time to play spider solitaire and update my blog!