Thanksgiving

Well Thanksgiving was delicious as usual. Definitely my favorite holiday of the year. This year I went to Seattle to visit some of my family. Well almost all of my siblings. Being one of seven with sibling scattered all over the United states (and one in Ireland) it is quiet an event when we all get together. We don't talk much throughout the year and often loose touch between holidays. Often at that point, conversation is just awkward. This year there was an interesting topic of conversation: chickens. I feel at this point I need to mention that I never had chickens, and never knew anyone with chickens, when I was growing up. Nor, as far as I'm aware, did any of my siblings. So it came as a bit of a surprise this year at thanksgiving that we discovered four out of the seven of us were now chicken keepers.  Birds of a feather flock together? Or were brooded together... Either way we passed some time talking about our chickens and telling stories of life on the "farm". Apparently my brother Marc's birds don't like treats. I saw with my own eyes him offering them french fries and they just walked away. My birds gobble up offerings first, ask questions later. Either that or his birds were watching their weight.

Also, an update, Betty seems to be doing much better. She is regaining weight and is very interested in the new chicken scratch I purchased. Whatever was blocking her up seems to have passed. Good news!


My sister Diana and I also went on a hike on Saturday near Skykomish, Wa in Wenatchee National Forest. It was raining and cold. We hiked through a forest that had been logged about 100 years ago. It was truly amazing to see the big stumps that were left from the loggers. It was beautiful to see the (slow) recovery that the forest was making. We got to a point where my brother AJ, my mom and Nadine were ready to head back down the mountain. My sister Diana and I decided to continue on a bit and we came across this. The picture only shows 1/4 of the falls. It was beautiful, amazing, cold, and very wet. Needless to say it was worth it.

Farthest left portion of the smaller side of the falls. Image shows about half the height. 

First sight of falls from bridge over the falls. Drops multiple times again in front of and behind where I was standing for this picture.