Animals
- Feathers And Fur
My new little guinea keets are doing quite well...at least the ones that remain. Apparently the first day after their arrival, several escaped through a crack beneath the brooder door.(a very tiny crack)We would never have known it (without counting),save...
- Very Pinteresting....dreaming Of Spring
Just a week of harsh cold and I am already dreaming of this.... and this... and this... Oh, how I miss my garden!And oh, how many ideas I have for this coming Spring.If I accomplish everything I have planned,I will have to work from sun up to sun down....
- Please Send Rain!
Water.It's one of our most precious resources.And one that we have received so little of lately.We have been without significant rainfall for weeks, now. The pond is suffering.It is down about 2 feet from its highest point. The ducks are unaffected,...
- Pond Happenings
I make several trips to our pond each day...first thing in the morning,to let the ducks out, last thing at night to close them back in,and occasional trips in between with the dogs. Each and every time I arrive at the pond,seven wild ducks fly away. They...
- Feeling Just Ducky
Is this a face that only a mother could love? Did my ducks mingle with a turkey?? Actually this duck is a Muscovy duck. He is one of three that were given to us by a friend. I should say he is one of three remaining Muscovies....a few perished at the...
Animals
I'm Dreaming of a Green Garden!
Our frigid Arctic vortex has apparently moved onward.
Today's highs are expected in the 20's.
This weekend could go to 60!
For now, though, it still looks wintery.
The pond is frozen except for two circular areas that stay liquid
due to aerators that keep the water moving.
I have not been able to take pictures with my zoom lens,
because the lenses fog up in the cold...
so, I cannot show you a close up of the ducks.
But if I could, you would see that the saying
"like water off a duck's back"
does not apply in this weather.
During this extreme cold, whenever the ducks would "duck" their heads under the pond
surface, the water would run down their backs and freeze there!
If I had used my zoom lens,
you would also see that there are two little mallard females
that have joined our flock of twelve.
Free and plentiful food, along with unfrozen water are hard to pass up!
Every time I go to the barn, I pass my sad, frozen garden.
It's hard to believe that in just a few months,
it will once again look like this!
And we will once again be able to eat our meals straight from the soil!
For now, I will keep busy with seed catalogs
and plans for this coming gardening season.
I have lots of ideas for some new vegetables this summer.
Among them are these....
Mexican Gherkin cucumbers...look like tiny fairy-sized watermelons...
great for salads.
Lots and lots of hot peppers.
I have a family that eats hot pepper relish with every single meal!
Also new for Spring will be:
- a newly built pumpkin patch
- a handmade picket fence gate for the pumpkin patch
- all sorts of tasty veggies
- new chicks
- and maybe a pair of little girly lambkins (maybe)
- Feathers And Fur
My new little guinea keets are doing quite well...at least the ones that remain. Apparently the first day after their arrival, several escaped through a crack beneath the brooder door.(a very tiny crack)We would never have known it (without counting),save...
- Very Pinteresting....dreaming Of Spring
Just a week of harsh cold and I am already dreaming of this.... and this... and this... Oh, how I miss my garden!And oh, how many ideas I have for this coming Spring.If I accomplish everything I have planned,I will have to work from sun up to sun down....
- Please Send Rain!
Water.It's one of our most precious resources.And one that we have received so little of lately.We have been without significant rainfall for weeks, now. The pond is suffering.It is down about 2 feet from its highest point. The ducks are unaffected,...
- Pond Happenings
I make several trips to our pond each day...first thing in the morning,to let the ducks out, last thing at night to close them back in,and occasional trips in between with the dogs. Each and every time I arrive at the pond,seven wild ducks fly away. They...
- Feeling Just Ducky
Is this a face that only a mother could love? Did my ducks mingle with a turkey?? Actually this duck is a Muscovy duck. He is one of three that were given to us by a friend. I should say he is one of three remaining Muscovies....a few perished at the...