This makes my heart so happy. The original Charlotte (our Australorp matriarch who we lost in February) was besties with the original Lavender Orpington Violet. (As an aside, I think Violet still misses Charlotte. I find her off by herself alot now...) B
Oftentimes, it takes us buckets of tears, sweat and (literally) blood before we achieve what we want in life. But so long as it means waking up the next day to a morning as majestic and picturesque as this, I would not mind fighting till I shed the last b