Animals
- Random Magic And Wonder
Some days I have no story to tell.At the end of some days, I have a camera full of random picturesand no story line to tie them all together. But then, that's how life is...sometimes there's a really good plot...a complex twisting storyline...and...
- The Saga Of Roy Boy
There's a newcomer in the upper chicken yard. Can you tell who it is?Yes, you are so right...it's Roy Boy! It seems that we had a happy accident on Sunday morning. Roy Boy, as you might remember, had been sleeping on top of the henhouse by the...
- Turkens
Meet IvankaAnd NatashaIt has been a while since I have shown you a picture of the turkens (Transylvanian naked neck chickens). They are almost full grown now and have their adult feathers. Surprisingly, turkens are very hardy chickens....and these gals...
- Chicken Reorganization
Yesterday morning I decided it was time to start to move the "baby" chickens to their permanent home with my other layers. These "babies" were hatched in August and have lived in my smallest henhouse (which I use as a brooder house) since then. Now that...
- Crazy Roosters
This story is unedited and told in the words of a very little horse-boy named Ollie. If you've ever had little boys, you will remember that they have their own unique sense of humor. Hello everybody! My name is Oliver Twist....but everybody calls...
Animals
Cleo Flew The Coop
Meet Cleo (short for Cleopatra)...
Cleo is one of the chicks that arrived April 1st.
She is one of a kind...
an Egyptian Fayoumis.
This breed of chicken is known to be exceptionally fast and predator safe.
Cleo is very flighty and has proven herself quite the Houdini.
Every morning when I open the henhouse she comes out the door sprinting...
bobbing and weaving to get out of the way of the other chickens... and me, too.
By mid-morning....every single day... she has escaped the henhouse yard
and is the only chicken outside the fence.
You see, right now I am keeping all of the girls in their yard during the morning hours...
to make sure that the newest layers get the hang of laying eggs in the nesting boxes,
and not out in the woods or pastures or goat houses.
I have yet to discover how Cleo escapes, but every morning she does just that.
(And then spends the rest of the morning trying to get back in to her compadres.
Silly chicken!
Autumnal weather has given me a burst of energy seldom seen in the summer months.
And so, yesterday I stripped out all of the bedding in the chicken houses and
replaced it with clean bedding.
I did a little mowing (mowing will soon be finished for the year...YAY!).
I paid my daily visit to Ginger and MaryAnn,
with pockets full of apple treats.
Oh, how these girls love their apples!
"Got any more???"
My free time was spent making these burlap flowers (wedding preparations)...
and packaging up orders (aprons, bracelets and knitwear) for shipping.
You might remember me mentioning that I was going to an auction
last evening to bid on a Hoosier cabinet.
Well, I would have given my eyeteeth for this particular cabinet...
however I was not prepared to pay the price that it sold for.
So...it did not find its way home with me.
C'est la vie.
I love finding great finds at great prices.
Maybe next time.
- Random Magic And Wonder
Some days I have no story to tell.At the end of some days, I have a camera full of random picturesand no story line to tie them all together. But then, that's how life is...sometimes there's a really good plot...a complex twisting storyline...and...
- The Saga Of Roy Boy
There's a newcomer in the upper chicken yard. Can you tell who it is?Yes, you are so right...it's Roy Boy! It seems that we had a happy accident on Sunday morning. Roy Boy, as you might remember, had been sleeping on top of the henhouse by the...
- Turkens
Meet IvankaAnd NatashaIt has been a while since I have shown you a picture of the turkens (Transylvanian naked neck chickens). They are almost full grown now and have their adult feathers. Surprisingly, turkens are very hardy chickens....and these gals...
- Chicken Reorganization
Yesterday morning I decided it was time to start to move the "baby" chickens to their permanent home with my other layers. These "babies" were hatched in August and have lived in my smallest henhouse (which I use as a brooder house) since then. Now that...
- Crazy Roosters
This story is unedited and told in the words of a very little horse-boy named Ollie. If you've ever had little boys, you will remember that they have their own unique sense of humor. Hello everybody! My name is Oliver Twist....but everybody calls...