Springtime is officially here with the arrival of our first chicks of the year!  Will try to get better photos in the next couple of days, but this morning our favourite Mummy hen showed off these four chicks -- two yellow and two black!  Woo hoo!  The cycle of life begins again....

The ducks have also finally started laying -- that's a hen egg on the left and a duck egg on the right.  Still not sure which of the ducks is laying, but we've had three eggs in the last week from them, so...

Lambing should start momentarily -- official start date is Monday, but a couple of the girls are starting to act like they're about ready today so watch this space...  Here some of them are looking nice and pregnant...

And just so they don't feel left out, here are the boys...

Lovely bit of God light the other morning:

And as Passover begins tonight, here are my homemade macaroons!  They are SO much easier to make than I expected and they are SO much more delicious than shop bought (which I always hated as a kid)...