Grocery Prices Are Through The Roof!!!

I don't know about you, but my grocery bill has gotten way too high lately.  Grocery prices have escalated so much in the past few months, that I find myself really shopping for the good deals.  I have always clipped coupons, and shopped pretty carefully.  But I usually stuck to one favorite market.  Now I shop all over and get things here and there.  I do watch the ads and try to match up coupons with those in store deals.  This weeks Stater Bros. circular listed Kellogg's cereal for the lowest price I have seen it in ages.  1.49 a box, as long as you buy 6.  With a 12 box maximum purchase.  Other Kellogg's products were done the same way.  Buy 6 and get a great price.  Eggo waffles and pancakes, nutri grain bars and fun fruits were all part of the deal.  So I did a stock up today.

You can also use printed coupons or newspaper coupons in addition to their ad price.  Which I did.  Making these items even cheaper.  So if you are near a Stater Bros., go stock up on cereal!
I have been letting my pullets out to free range every evening while I water the garden lately.  They are in hog, or should I say, hen heaven! 

That is the six little ones there, with ol Hare Lip Lucy rushing over to see what they are doing rooting around in her favorite worm spot.  Ethel was under her own tree somewhere, gobbling up as many bugs and worms as she could before calling it a night.
I know this is terribly out of focus, but I thought it was kind of funny with Chicas looking like she was running out of the cyclone action going on.

It was getting dark, and as per usual, Lucy and Ethel head straight for their roost in the Little Tike's Playhouse.  Ethel had already turned in, but Hare Lip Lucy was too concerned about why these other chicklets were out in her hood to leave for bed just yet.   You can see in the below picture, that Ethel was already roosting inside the house as Lucy was inching her way back inside the coop, keeping a careful eye on those 5 new kids in town.

Now that the girls know how fun it is to scratch in the grove for worms and snails and other yummy treats, they will be begging me to let them out every time I walk by the coop.

They are so fun to watch!  There are nearly 100 trees out there to explore, but they worked this one spot over for a good hour.  Surely they got every form of life available to them!   They each have their own personalities. Some of them are much more tame, and others are quite skiddish.   Like pretty little Tillie, the Delaware.  She has bit me twice while I was putting mash in their pen.  Oh it doesn't hurt at all, but I gave her a good what for, for doing it.  Then there's Ol Ham.  If HE does turn out to be a she, at this point I will be shocked.  He/she displays very ROO like manners.  He/she is quite the leader of the pack, and also seems to be watching over everyone.  Which is very Roo like.  But then again, hens do have a pecking order, and he/she is oldest of the pullets.  So if in another 4-6 weeks, she is not laying eggs, then I will be pretty sure Ham is a Roo.  But to know for sure, we will wait for the cocka-doodle-doo!!!
That's it from the farm.  It's Friday folks.   Go have some fun!!!