OK so it's a lighthouse...the birds would be DELIGHTED to move in there. The colors are nice and the layout is just right. Since I'm horribly lazy, I'm going to like it just like it is, I don't want to fuss. I have enough to worry website-wise with the business site(s).

This is the first real post here so before it gets shoved off into oblivion at the end of some far away page, I'll introduce Junior, above; ^^^ he hatched on July 21 so today, he's 17 days old. They grow so fast, he looks completely different from this picture which is only 4 days old. He's started to clamber around in the coop all on his own, two days ago he climbed out of his nestbowl so I took it out and now he lives in a larger nest bowl - a discarded metal electrical box full of straw. He has his own bowls of seed and water in there, but I've not seen him take a drink or sample any food on his own yet. By next week, I'm sure that will change. I'll take him out of enclosures altogether soon as he starts eating on his own, and can make it to a roosting spot off the floor. In two more weeks he'll be flying. Hard to believe.

I keep calling him he, only I hope it's a girl this time.

He had a sibling born earlier in the spring who was taken by some predator or other, most likely a racoon...Now they are living in a more impregnable enclosure. (I hope.)

I just wonder; is there a really nice photo/journal blog hosting site out there. Flicker is TOO photo oriented, for me.