Ducklings!

A few weeks ago our friends, the Sculleys, gave us some duck eggs. We gave 3 of them to one of our Silkie hens and put the rest in the incubator.

This morning one of the eggs hatched! I'm sure the hen was surprised to see a duck hatching from the egg instead of a chick!

Isn't he cute?!

This duckling is about to hatch!

~~~UPDATE~~~

Two more ducklings have hatched!We still have not come up with good names for them - leave us a comment if you have any suggestions!

McNairy County Reagan Dinner

Yesterday our County Republican Party had its annual Reagan Dinner. The guest speaker was Senator Bob Corker, one of Tennessee's U.S. Senators. You can see more pictures from the event on our political blog, www.11smithsforhuckabee.com.

Jimmy and Nate

Jimmy and Nate spent the day with us yesterday. We enjoyed the chance to practice taking pictures with our new camera!

Jimmy is always happy!

Precious Nate This is the only picture we got of the boys together with both of them smiling! Some outdoor shots... Leave us a comment and tell us which you think are better -- the pictures that are in color or the ones that we changed to black and white.

Our cat, Dolly, had 4 kittens on Wednesday!Our garden is doing well!

Beans... Tomatoes...

Corn...

Blackberries...

Blueberries... Strawberries... Cherries... The wheat field behind our house On Thursday our friends, the Everitts came over.

Tryston and Nate

ArianaDakotaJimmyNateThey brought us 2 little chickens!

Butchering Day

Yesterday we processed 80 meat chickens. Our average dressed

weight was 5.28 lb., and our biggest bird weighed 7.5 lb. dressed!