It’s been a run of gorgeous sunrises around here. The kind that make me welcome the time change and the fact that it’s again getting light just as I leave for work. Of course, I know that it won’t last and pretty soon I’ll be leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark. But while it’s here, I’m gonna enjoy it!
In other news…
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A fantastic reader, Chance, and her family came by on Sunday and were kind enough to give us 4 new hens to add to our depleted flock (thank you!). All four of them, 2 Cuckoo Marans and 2 Ameraucanas, are doing okay. Or at least holding their own. Last night they decided that they would just sleep outside on top of the grain bin. Not really an option with our raccoon problem. I gently moved them inside and they promptly settled in. Pics this week if I can get out there when it’s still light outside.
We haven’t lost any more hens since we started locking them in every night. Just to be sure we put up new, heavy duty, netting over the whole run a couple of weekends ago. It was quite the chore, but looks fantastic, much better than the cheapy stuff we put up in February.
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Cody and Whiskey are hanging out in the barn yard while the new grass grows in on the pasture areas that Mike renovated in October. It’s shocking how fast slender sprouts can give wide swaths of brown the sheen of green, even this time of year. The boys can’t wait until they can get back out there and go for a run/buck/run/leap/buck/run.
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George has made himself at home in the barn and taken to following me everywhere I go. Funny how quickly he became part of the farm family. Sterling, for various reasons, has joined him. They’re still working out the details of sharing the barn, but I think they’re getting closer to an understanding.
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The garden is a mess, and has been most of the late summer and fall. Still out there is celery, carrots, late peas, green onions and kale. The garlic is still in the barn, I’m planning to get it in Wednesday under the “better late than never” theory. The poly tunnels are going up in February with early starts as I never got the fall starts going – I filled the trays but failed to seed them. Oh well, thankfully there’s always the farmer’s markets/stands.
