Getting Bigger, much Bigger.

I had no idea how much baby chickens can poop.  It is amazing.  They have gotten so big that they are flying out of their pen.  So, we expanded out into the laundry room. Which makes it hard when we
have to wash clothes. And we took them out in the yard in a pen for two hours. We gave them earth
worms to play with and eat.  We bought a chicken coop. It will be delivered on Friday. I will take
photographs.  We had a late cold freeze. It would have not been so bad if it had only been one night or
one night and a few nights later another. But it was three nights of below freezing. The Iris you see in
this blog survived. But the holly bushes, crepe myrtles, maples, largely everything which had just leafed
out was burnt.  Very burnt.  Everything that had been growing all along was fine, my verbena flowers

came through it fine as they have been blooming since March. This unseasonably warm weather in March in which things started leafing out like it was late April, and then the late freeze is just totally wrong. Mother Nature is confused. The birds are confused. Our little house wren when it go so cold, she abandoned her eggs.  No one can tell me that global warming is not changing the face of the earth.  The penguin and polar bears know it.  This yard I live in has been planted with such love. The man who did all this David (passed away at age 59) I don't know what he died of. But he was an Ear Nose and Throat doctor in Atlanta, and I think he was under a lot of stress and he ate too much.  David must have loved flowers because they are blooming everywhere.  I hope all my friends who read this are well. Oh, and I now have a compost bin, complete with knats.

Baby Chicks

Well, as Ralph said.  Oh crap, we're chicken farmers.  And so four little 1 week old babies moved into the garage.  But then it got cold and they moved into the laundry room.  Eat, sleep and poop. Just like real human week old babies.  They are called golden comets.  Not what I wanted.  I think they are sex linked which means you can't breed them with another comet and get a comet. But I am not planning on showing birds or breeding them.  Ralph made them a little perch.  We will get a chicken coop when they are big enough.  Spring has been very warm for up here.  But they say you can get a frost all the way into May 1.  We live near an airport. thus the lear jet.

Ralph was mowing the left side of yard on ride on and ran over a baby bunny nest.  He was just ready to move.  So today I went out and ran a rake through the other side of the lawn and flushed out another rabbit. I didn't see any nests.  We have had a lot of rain.  So much, that Ralph could not mow.  The lawn got so high.  We had so many violets  More later.

Cherry Blossoms and Day Lilies

We have single cherry tree blossoms, now double cherry blossoms, weeping cherry tree's and dogwoods. Whoever owned this house, loved flowers.  And I can see that there are daylilies getting ready to bloom in a few months.  The farm store is supposed to get new baby chicks in on Wednesday.  I am hoping they have some orpingtons this time.  They had black and white chicks last time but sold them all.  We have a new well. But we had to put our iron filter back on because our iron is two times over the limit.  This is upsetting my husband as he wonders, if it's over the allowable limit, why did the health dept. pass the well. So he is checking with the EPA.  If we have to change the media in the filter often, it will cost too much.  I believe I need bee hives.

I think we are going to need two goats to eat the weeds on the steep hill. We just can't mow it.  Here are the spring flowers. enjoy.