This picture is unrelated to the content of this post, but I think posts without pics are dull. ;)

If you're one who enjoys the blog but avoids change at all costs, you may want to crawl into a hole right now or mentally take a little visit to your happy place.

As we prepare for our farm to grow, we feel it's time for the blog to move. We will soon be launching a full-fledged Brood Farm website. And, if I may brag on my techy hubby a moment, it's a pretty cool one. It's still under construction, but I'm loving the way it looks and reads!

We want the blog to feature prominently there, so its web address will need to change. This is not a big deal. The blog may look a little different. The way you have to get there may change, but its content, pics, and all my crazy ramblings will be business as usual.

If you, say, access the blog daily via a button on the home screen of your iPad (Mamaw, I'm talking to you now ;), you'll need to create a new button using the new web address and delete the old one. Or, ask one of your super-handy grandkids to help you out. ;)

When the new site goes live, I will feature a link to it from this blog. We're looking at some time next week most likely. This will give those of you who've visited the hole or your happy place some time to adjust to this new reality.

Now, those of you who use FaceBook to link up to the blog each day are probably getting all snooty right now as you think, "This doesn't affect me, I just click in FB and it magically takes me where I need to go, so I'll barely even notice this change." Not so fast.

We will also be launching a Brood Farm Facebook account. This is something I've been wanting to do for awhile now. It will allow me to separate my farm dealings from my personal life a bit. If I want to share with you the funny things my kids say, I'll do that as Ashley Carroll Beller, as usual. If I want to tell you about how the chickens got out yesterday and our lawnmover friend and I had to herd them all back into their pen using soccer nets, I'll probably do that via Brood Farm. All blog posts, which are really about farm life (with a healthy dose of personal life because, let's face it, it's hard to keep them entirely separate) will be posted via Brood Farm.

So, if you think my human kids are really cute and would like to see pics of them at dance competition, on the soccer field, or in their superhero costumes, but could do without all the commentary regarding my goat kids in the backyard, continue to be friends with Ashley Carroll Beller and enjoy your newly decluttered newsfeed as you'll no longer have to endure daily links to the blog.

I have a pretty strict FaceBook policy which I've used for awhile and think it serves to protect me well. I can be friends with any woman all day long, but I am only friends with men who are related to me. Sometimes, this has seemed like a policy that's a little over the top (like when one of my good friends' 60-year-old dad friend-requested me), but I feel like it's a policy that I self-employ for my protection and once I start making exceptions, things get muddied.

So, having a Brood Farm FB account makes it possible for anyone to "like" what's happening on the farm, get farm updates, schedule egg delivery, and more without necessarily also having to be my "friend." And, let's be honest, just because you'd like to have fresh eggs delivered weekly, doesn't mean you also want to have to endure my posting about how my too-juicy burgers fell through the grates of the grill last night.

So, we're headed toward this next big stage, but for those of you who have a nostalgia for the past, www.broodingon.blogspot.com will remain available with all its 602 past posts. Additionally, all the posts to date will be imported to the new site, so you can search for them there as well.

We are really hoping to use the Brood Farm FB site to generate lots of interest in our egg sales, so when you see it go live, please "like" and "share" it to your little heart's desire!

Okay. Enough for today. Don't be scared. Change can be good. I think once you see the new site, you'll agree!