Flowers from the 2013 garden

Kitchen Potager Garden 2013

Gertie's first egg!!!!!!

They grow so fast!

It's amazing how quickly the chicks are growing!!  They were two day old chicks and in the three days we've had them,  they've begun to develop some wing feathers and a couple have sprouted little pin feathers on their tails.  The Easter Eggers (Charlie, Lulu, Cleo) and  seem to be developing the most quickly, followed by the Barred Plymouth Rocks (Sweet Pea and Etta) and lastly the  Red Stars (Gertie and Ruby).  Charlie and Lulu are the largest and most dominant so far.  I sprinkled a few dried meal worms in along with their starter feed.  When one chick finds a worm, the others chase her all around the brooder until she stops and gobbles it up.  They have some fine parakeet grit sprinkled among with the wood shavings which they love scratching for.  Gretchen, our miniature dachshund is mesmerized by them and can sit for hours watching  CV (Chicken Vision :)   We enjoy watching their high-jinks too.

Chick Pics

Chick Express.......

Picked my chicks up from the post-office at 7:00 AM this morning!   I ordered 7 chicks from My Pet Chicken (2 Barred Plymouth Rocks, 2 Red Stars, and 3 Easter Eggers).  They came in a cardboard carrier and they were cheeping like crazy.  Got them squared away under the brooder lamp and they are settling in well.  Gretchen, our miniature dachshund, is a little out of sorts but hopefully she'll come around soon. 

Holy Hail !!!!!

Heavy 50 cent piece size hail stones for about 20-30 minutes late this afternoon after a sunny day with temps in the 80's.. My heart sank thinking about all my nice chunky little tomato, pepper and eggplants that I had planted in the first week of May. I was relieved to find that other than the loss of a few lateral branches on a couple of tomato plants, my garden was in pretty good shape. Our cars had several dents on the hoods and roofs and were not quite so lucky. Weird weather for the end of May for sure.......