Reddy!

Mr. C with the newest addition to our "fleet". (It's Reddy!) This truck is one year newer than Sam's truck, which was wrecked just the day before we got this one. Dan's truck is still in the shop awaiting parts. Sam's insurance settlement is awaiting the OHP official report, according to the insurance company. He continues to look for a replacement vehicle.
Sam's been asked to go ahead and take his Residential Journeyman's license test. He has well more than enough on the job training hours to qualify to take the test. He still has one year and a few weeks of class time left to be able to take the full Journeyman's Electrician test, which will qualify him to work both commercial and residential jobs without a supervisor.
Things are really starting to green up here. My chicks are outgrowing their box. I have been taking my plants out of the greenhouse on nice days, and letting the chicks run inside the greenhouse during the day, when I am home. The greenhouse, just being plastic, is not predator proof. The chicken coop isn't warm enough for the chicks overnight, with them not fully feathered out. We have a few nights this coming week where we are supposed to have highs in the 40's and lows in the 20's. But we are getting there!

My babies are getting bigger! The little guinea is a beautiful bird. It is in the group above.

They almost all look rather scraggly right now- that awkward pinfeather stage.
I hope the big guinea (Speckles) from my batch from Nola gets along with these little gals.
Son Chris has been teaching himself to draw. These are pretty good, drawn freehand with pencil on plain typing paper. He has to draw from photographs.

Yes, Grace squints like this in many of her pictures. I think it is a bit exaggerated here. For a long time, Chris thought she had some sort of problem that no one had told him about. Grace is perfectly normal (well, as "normal" as Jones+Coder can be!)... this is just her "picture" face.
Thanks for reading. I'm off to hose down the chicken pen while the weather is nice!