Ethel when she isn't Broody Ethel’s biological clock has decided to tell her she needs to stop laying eggs and hatch some instead. So she’s gone broody. It doesn’t matter that we have no rooster and the eggs will never hatch, her hormones win out. First she sat on her egg, but we took it …
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Sowing
Self-planted purple columbine The garden is all planted! All the seeds are sown, and, except for a few indoor starts that are still a little small, everything has been planted out. James and I are tuckered out. But it’s the satisfied sort of tuckered out that comes after you’ve done work you love. In an …
Full Swing
So many apple blossoms My brother-in-law and his wife stopped the night at our house last weekend on their way to the UP (that’s midwest talk for the upper peninsula of Michigan) and they stopped again this weekend on their way home to Albuquerque. It was great to see them, they are good people, but …
So Many Leaves
Stopped on my bike ride home Tuesday to enjoy the sunset over Lake Nokomis James is healing from his surgery from a week ago Friday. He is getting his energy back. His incisions are now starting to get itchy. He still can’t bend well or stretch to get something out of a kitchen cabinet. And …
Like a Mama Hen
Chickens can't quite believe they are in the main garden After digging the sweet potatoes and protecting the cabbage and radishes Saturday, we opened the gate between the main garden and the chicken garden to let the girls roam. Such happiness! So excited by the wood sorrel growing just inside the garden gate, it was …
