The First Day of Spring! It was actually warmish. And there was free Rita's! We don't frequent Rita's, mostly just on the days its free or if I have a groupon. But on the first day of Spring everyone gets a free Italian Ice, so of course we had to go. We were going to the Walter's Art Museum with friends and the girls got to do a program on Japanese Ikebana art so we stopped for Ice on the way. Notice Gwyn's ducklips - where do girls learn this?! Thank heavens she was trying to be silly and didn't make this face in some weird attempt to look cool.
Our good friends, the Taylors, invited us to house-sit with them at their relatives' farm in Easton which is on the Eastern Shore. We had never been down there, so we were super excited. The farm is on a river that connects to the Chesapeake. They have lots of chickens and some sheep that we got to take care of too. I think the golf cart won the most popular activity. Well, that and taking care of the chickens. The "ladies" got lots of yummy fruit scrap treats while we were there. And the kids all loved to go collect eggs - in fact they went to collect them multiple times a day, even when the hens were still in the nesting boxes. Poor chickens.
It was a rainy weekend, but the kids all played out in it anyway. Lyla tried her hand at fishing for a while. She did pretty well casting her own rod, but no one caught anything. The girls finally discovered the loft in one of the barns and quickly made it into a "house." I love the opportunity for the kids to just roam and play. We all had a good time! It wasn't the relaxing weekend us adults might have wanted, but we had fun hanging with friends and just getting to do new things together.
I'm glad that the girls had fun taking care of the chickens. I feel like chickens have taken up a lot of our time and energy for the past month and I have nothing to show for it yet! But that's for another blog. The chickens are coming. We will be ready. :)
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