A Dilemma

Of the rooster variety.

My luck has turned, and I now have at least one, maybe two, to many roosters. Reginald and Clarence (and Norman) have beaten Horace up and knocked him off his throne. Pretty sure Reginald was planning a coup that whole time he was just lurking in the corners of the run... So who stays and who goes?

This delightfully 'furry' creature? Pretty sure if he stays, it'd have to be just him. And honestly, he drug Dru to the hen house by the neck last night. Not winning many brownie points with me...

Or this previously nice one? Who used to get along ohsowell with Horace and has enjoyed chasing Norman his whole life there?

Somehow I don't think leaving these two together will work out very well. Pretty sure they'll stay at it till only one of them remains... And I like Horace. He's a good roo. Pretty sure he's gonna win the rooster lottery and get to stay.

Meanwhile - 2 more weeks till chicks! Which means I've gotta figure out a brooder system... yikes. (And I'm not keeping ANY new roosters. Hens only this time.)

Norman's safe. He's such a weanie. :)

Recipe for an Excellent Good Friday

1. Run 3.3 miles in 32ish minutes with a friend.
2. 4 flats of strawberries + friend and her child + 4 hours = 32 jars of jam (various sizes)
3. Sunshine and a breeze
4. Fellowship with the crazies at church tonight
5. Looking forward to a bluegrass festival and planting the last of the veggies tomorrow.

These Boots Were Made For Farming...

... and that's just what they did today. :) 

The final, fenced in garden. Calling this one The Big Z. Many thanks to the little brother for putting the fencing up.

All that work in February has ended up really paying off. so glad I got all that outta the way in advance, as just using the hoe today was starting to get to my hand.

Crops! A row of Roma tomatoes, row of cucumbers (Lemon & Straight) along the back, zucchini, squash (straight and crookneck), 3 sweet heirloom peppers, 1 'medium hot' heirloom pepper, 2 habanero peppers, 3 'Crimson Sweet' watermelons, dill, anise (hyssop) and bee balm. There's room in the back corner still, and I'm pretty sure I'll stick lavender there.

That broccoli I planted to late in the season? Yeah... you can't fool Mother Nature. It's blooming. Quite pretty, actually.

The romaine lettuce is doing quite well, as are is the buttercrunch lettuce and spinach. Nothing from the cauliflower or the cabbage. Better luck in the fall, yeah?

And those potatoes? Doing quite splendidly, thank you very much. :)

Also. I peeked. There are for real potatoes there. So exciting!!!




In other farm news, hoping to take a passel of eggs to the incubator around the 17th.

news!

I realize I may be the only person that gets excited about such things...


But Drusilla laid an egg today. For the first time in almost a month. Of course, it was soft and cracked, so I chunked it. But still. An egg!!

*beams*

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