New Arrivals on the Homestead

We're hosting two Japanese students for two weeks. Well, it was supposed to be two weeks. Our two girls were scheduled to arrive Sunday night, but the blizzard caused the airline to cancel their flights. The soonest they could rebook was for Wednesday.

We pick them up last night from MSU and served them a welcome meal of spaghetti. They heard Minnesota is the land of hot dish, so their one food request for the trip was to try hotdish. Tonight's menu is tater tot hotdish, the most Minnesota hot dish we could think of. 😄

Other new arrivals are two baby ducks! I could see at least five more eggs with cracks in their shells, so there will be more by tonight for sure. 

Not new arrivals, but G caught this chick roosting on the heat lamp cord. 

Time to put a top on the box. 😅

They are fully feathered out now and are entering the awkward teenage phase. 😂

Jaron loves watching animals of all kinds, but especially birds. 

And especially Dad. 😂

He never fails to earn a smile and oftentimes a laugh when G is spotted. 😊