It’s Been A While

It’s been, what, three months since my last blog post?  Mercy, time flies!

We’ve been busy doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that during that time.

Things like surviving winter; working on my sewing space/office; attending a quilt retreat while CountryBoy held down the farm; tearing down a pole shed; sealing the fireplace rocks; rearranging the second guest room; relocating the salvaged wood in the barn to make way for CountryBoy’s shop; tidying up the grounds; walling off a portion of the shed/guest house for storage; etc., etc.

In early April we added sixteen chicks to our current flock of ten chickens.  We lost five in the first couple of weeks (it was a very emotional few weeks) and bought six more during a trip to Tractor Supply giving us a total of seventeen chicks.

They have graduated to the grow-out coop in the big girls’ coop and are all doing well, thank goodness.

So far, the big girls aren’t too concerned about the young’uns.

We’ll see how it goes when we start integrating them.  Fingers crossed all goes well!

Does anyone know what happened to Spring?

We had a few Spring-like days and the flowers started blooming.

Now it’s cold again.  We’ve had a fire going the last few days to keep the chill out of the house.

And rain.  Lots and lots of rain.

We’re not sure how the gardens will turn out this year.  We’ve managed to plant a few things such as corn, beets, onions, potatoes, lima beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, jalapenos, basil and marigolds but then it rained and the temps dropped.

This was a few days ago.  sigh.

I’ve seen two cucumbers so far.  Looks like I’ll be planting some more.  The corn, onions, beets and potatoes seem to be doing OK.  The other stuff?  We’ll have to wait and see.  If they make it through all the rain and cold temps they’ll be some pretty hardy plants!

I’m hearing the weather is crazy all over the place.  How is it where you are?  Have you been able to get anything planted in your garden?

Till next time!