Egg-citing Egg-periments

It has been an eventful few weeks!  After all of the theater stuff was over and done, L and I went to an Alice in Wonderland themed Murder Mystery Tea.  Our character was the Mad Hatter, so we dressed the part.

We made a big Easter dinner and had my parents over.  JP smoked a ham, and I tried a new recipe for Melting Potatoes, which DEFINITELY warrants being made again.

My hens are now 2 years old, and although putting a light on in the hen house in the evenings all winter did increase their productivity, we don't usually keep them longer than this.  I am having a hard time finding peeps this spring, so we decided to try to hatch some eggs.  JP brought a rooster that was in need of a new home back from work with him about 2 or 3 weeks ago.  He immediately started doing his thing, and I put 18 eggs in the incubator on April 27th.

J's graduation from Bowling Green was on Saturday.  We found out last spring that all of the hotel rooms and Air BNBs in the area were already booked a year ahead, so we ended up staying just over an hour away with JP's brother.  We drove up from home last Wednesday, stopping first to change a flat on the OH turnpike, and then to have lunch with J at her apartment.

The following day we drove the hour + back to BG and got most of J's stuff in her apartment packed in the truck.  We then drove over an hour West to spend the evening with one of JP's college buddies and his family, before driving back to his brother's place for the night.  We made the trip again Friday to do some more packing and take J out for dinner, then early Sat AM took off for the grad ceremony.

We got a later start than intended and barely made it there in time.  Over 700 students graduated and there were 2 more ceremonies slated for Saturday!!

Today I have been working on laundry, but I also took the time to "candle" the eggs in the incubator.  17 out of 18 of them appear to be growing babies!

The dark spot is the embryo.

It was late and raining when we returned to PA, so even though we still have a truck full of J's stuff that needs to go up to her apartment in Pittsburgh, we didn't take the time to do it last night.  We may be taking it up today, although the Pittsburgh Marathon, a Pirate's game, and University of Pitt graduation are currently jamming up the roads.

SIGH.

The good news is new peeps in about 2 weeks, other than that, life is CRAZY!