We are pleased to announce that after a long hiatus, some of our most popular site features have returned.

Our live chicken cam is now back online and perched on the edge of our coop peering in through the chicken wire.  We may be tweaking it over the next few days to try to get the best angle.  The chickens have free range of the corner of our yard during the day, but they come back into the coop to lay, eat, and drink.  The nest boxes (where they lay) are directly ahead, with the water dispenser above it.  Their food dispenser is to the left.

We also have our egg ticker back in the right column of every page.  Take a look... it's okay, I'll wait.  That's showing the total counts laid by our current flock to date.  You can also see the full calendar with eggs laid each day for our current flock (calendar for our first flock is here).  You can see how long it took before each flock started laying and on the older calendar the variation in laying rates by season. 

Ann's been particularly excited with this flock to watch the laying progress ("Quiche is back in the nest box again."), so I presume she'll be keeping the new calendar up-to-date.

PaulAndAnn.org has a new look, a new home, new features, and a lot new under the hood.  We are now hosted at Joyent, rather than on the Linux machine under my desk (I would always cringe when I could hear the CPU fan cranking hard on a hot day).

Of particular note:

• You can leave comments to our blog posts.
• The new image at the top of the page is at a park near Ann's parents' house, from our recent trip to South Bend.
• A facelift for photo albums, with pop-up preview mode and access to downloading the full-sized images (hopefully to the delight of certain grandparents).
• Paging of blog articles, so you don't have to wait for all of them to render when loading the main page.
• Everything's faster!

Let us know if you see anything amiss as we complete the transition.  For those who care, the site is running on a new CMS engine I have written in Ruby on Rails for use with other consulting client.

Our chickens have felt a little neglected since the new introduction to our family, so we are finally indulging their desire to be internet film stars.  Hopefully it won't go to their heads.  You can now see them live right here.  Perhaps we could boost traffic to our site now by advertising, "Live Hot Nude Chicks!"

We're excited to have a shiny new site with some nice bells and whistles.  Take a look through the sections listed on the right side of the page.  We'll try to keep things updated here...