It hasn't been quite a month, so maybe there are at least a couple of you still checking the blog! Since our weather has been nice, work on the coop has been bumped down the priority list, and the chickens really don't need too much attention at this point besides a hello at morning and a good night in the evening.Something new has happened, though: They cluck! They're real hens now! They're also getting nice combs and fancy tail feathers. Not rooster-fancy, but fancy enough.
They seem happy, eating the leaves off of our raspberry plant, scratching in the long grass, getting into kerfuffles with each other. Our dogs still hang out on the other side of the fence and watch them annoyingly, but the hens now know that they only need to back off a foot or two and they'll be fine. The other day we found Jonah under the coop, draped across Zoe on a pile of hay, just watching the birds. He loves them, although he's found that their beaks pinch when you try to feed them out of your hand. Youch!
Here is a shot of our fortress-garden. Those are potatoes in the foreground. They may look big, but they're nothing compared to the ones in our compost pile. I think the fact that they're there means that our compost isn't really composting, though. We've been eating spinach out of the garden, and have already harvested all of the bok choy! It's fun, but we realized if we want to get really serious about growing food for the family, we're going to need a lot more garden. We might turn the area behind the trellis into more garden space.
Jonah loves everything about the backyard, especially the pile of dirt next to the raised beds. He can be busy all afternoon...
Here he is, contemplating the future of the garden. Good thing we have him around!
4 comments:
I'd write more but your son's eyes are hypnotizing me, so I can't.
I know, they're stunning, aren't they? They don't come from Dave or me, either. The only people we know of in the family with beautiful blue eyes are you and Grandpa! So there you go.
We are expanding our garden today. I was going to take pictures, but I realized our camera battery is dead, so I'm going to go charge it and see if I can get another posting up soon.
I planted bok choy from seed and was thrilled when it came up. However, it bolted and bloomed and it was not even as big around as a pencil! It must be truly a winter crop here in N. Cal.
Your chickens are so cute but your son is adorable!
Two of our bok choy plants bolted, too. We had a brief heat wave followed by lots of rain, and I think that is what caused it. I'm going to try again this fall - I really want to have a good fall/winter garden!
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