Is it Spring? Really!?!

This little chick makes me want to have a chicken of my own, he hatched 2-3 days after the rest of the eggs in this batch and is as unique as the Ugly Duckling.... I love that it has striped feathers while all of the rest of them are mostly black with a speck of white here and there.  Aiden and I got some pics of these guys while Mom was out of town and now they are getting adjusted to life without their heat lamp so they can be put outside.  They have finally gotten big enough that they won't need a heat light anymore, and other than the late hatcher the rest of them have pretty much lost all their fuzz and it has been replaced with feathers.... I think it is very interseting the difference just a couple of days can make in the growth of a chick.

Since the snow melted this last time we have been having better and better weather.... I have had the chance to transplant some of the Iris's and even got to take the kids for a wagon ride today ((that'll wear you out))....They love it when I tie the wagons together and they all get to ride on the wagon train....J and I even worked on the trampoline and were able to straighten the frame out enough that the kids can still enjoy it.... I'm not so sure adults want to get on it anymore, but I know it can handle 50lbs with no problem and that makes Aiden a lot more happy.

Snow in April!?! WTH

 It was the oddest thing... it was 50 and looked like it was going to be a beautiful day in the morning... J was helping out one of his teachers and had gone to school early on Thursday..... he called me around Noon and said it was sleeting there and I may get to see him earlier than expected.... hmmmm..... I was doing chores and hadn't been paying attention to the weather and went I took some trash out I could feel the snow in the air....could it be? A snow storm in April? Really !?!

 Sure enough in now time it was snowing, and the flakes were huge....funny thing is all sorts of things have be proven wrong this year... The groundhog didn't see his shadow and winter still has not gone away, I saw a flock ((not just one, but a Flock)) of Robins in my yard a couple of weeks ago, it doesn't snow in VA after the middle of March..... I don't know what to think anymore.....

 It was super hard to get the true size and ammount of snowflakes taht were falling, so I took more video than pictures this time.... but the videos really captured the true nature of this snow.....

It snowed and snowed and snowed  ......

 and it just kept comin down until we had about 3-4 inches of snow......

 We enjoyed laughing at the comments on weather.com stating "precipitation is occuring nearby" and "nearby locations are also reporting snow" and "snow is accumulating rapidly" as the storm prgressed through the area.

 The storm created a donut hole of snow and dropped it right on our heads... LoL... who woulda thunk it?

 Aiden got to have fun playing in the snow with J and Gus, throwing snowballs on Spring Break is a new one for me for sure.

 I really wanted to capture the true enormity if the chunks of snow that were falling from the sky.... and the only way I could figure out how was to film straight up.....

 I got hit with a few snowflakes in the process, but the video was totally worth it....

My favorite snow covered tree!!!