Big day today - our young rooster crowed for the first time! Don't quite know why I felt so proud!
When we bought the chicks, we didn't know how many of each sex we would end up with. But this seems to be the only rooster out of the 20 chicks. Amazing! Last time we bought chicks, quite a few years ago, we had 18 roosters out of 20. Most went to live on Pete's uncle's farm. Hoping this one  stays friendly.

This morning we did a job we've been putting off for a while. I'm not sure why we picked such a cold day to do it, but when the inspiration hits you have to run with it!

We had some very overgrown cedar shrubs along the back of the house. They were mostly twigs with greenery just at the very tips, and they were blocking the windows at one end of the basement and not letting in any light. So Pete cut them all down with the chainsaw and we fed them through the chipper. You can see him in the second picture up on a ladder clearing the chipper when it got clogged up because we weren't taking our time!

The whole thing took longer than we expected and I was absolutely frozen when we finished. We had planned to clean out the hen house too, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.