Beauty and some Beasts...

Exciting and fun new things have been showing up around here everyday. 

How much fun is a brand new S10...

And this sweet little Victoria...she even has her own little suitcase she folds up into.  Just the thing for those spinning sleep-overs (you laugh...but how much fun would that be!) ...

And this is a brand new Wheel called the Mach I.  It treadles a whole new way and is incredibly smooth...like buttah.

And these...Ack!  They take me by surprise every time...

Our newest addition to our farm...Guinea fowl.  Besides being hideous ugly,... (don't you just love the horn on the top of the head, sort of Teenage Mutant Ninja Chickens...heavy on the mutant)...and completely wild, they make a noise like finger nails on a blackboard (except about 500 times louder).  Why bring such creatures to our little Instead homestead of happiness?

Because this is their favorite meal...

And besides being even uglier and less cuddly than a Guinea...they suck blood.

So, chow down Guinea fowl.  Every day this summer, that I don't have to pull a tick off the tender parts of a 10 year-old boy, I will be very grateful for your unattractive existence...