Oh, What A Spectacle!

Rain and Dogs!

What do they have to do with each other? They damaged my three sisters garden. The dogs ran though and damged a few stalks of corn. It rained pretty hard last night and this morning I about cried. No less than six stalks fallen to the wayside. I guess the hens can much on them. Now I need to replant new ones as there are giant gaps in my "field"

Gaps and dying stalks.

Bigger ones were okay. I think the medium height ones did not like heavy rain.

Big drops still lingering.

 

love and gardening

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Hen Friends

So here is a video my daughter made.

 

Dryer Free

So we did it! On Monday we returned our dryer to Rent A Center. Too bad we can't get our money back. But, in an effort to save money and be more self suffecient we have become dryer free. We have a rortary clothesline in the backyard. Since it was raining yesterday and today a bit I hung some clothes on the shower rod and got a small drying rack. Our gas bill will be dropping! I am looking into a few more different indoor racks. I like to having shirts, skirts and dresses to dry inside. Black clothes fade less inside as well.  But, this will asll do for now.

Peace and Drying Freedom.

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more info

http://www.dryingforfreedom.com/

 

New Friend

 

Yesterday we added a new friend. Her name is Nixie. She is a White  Rock Hen. She lays an egg a day. I know that isn't much for our family of seven. But, if we save them all week we can all have one egg with our pancakes on Sunday. We have a nice size area fenced off for her and are considering fencing off another area for more hens. She likes to eat other hens...so she has to be separate. Since it is just her for now, she has free roam of the backyard during the day. As you can see Maggie has already fallen in love with her.

Love and Backyard Chickens

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2011 Tallies

Vegtables

 

Herbs

 

Fruits

 

Eggs

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