Chickens ....

2 Buff chicks hatched out and when they were 3 weeks old, the Game chicks hatched ... There's around 12 of them.

They will not hold still long enough for me to get a good count. They hold still a wee bit, I start to count and then they run and the counting starts over.

 I was not home when the Games hatched and when I went out to check on things, the new babies were there but my Buff Babies were GONE !!! I have a feeling they walked thru the fence and the cats helped themselves to a chicken dinner !!

Needless to say, we have new fencing with smaller holes!!! The chicks are still getting out, but I think I know where it is and tonight when it cools off a bit, I'll fix that spot !!! No more walk-abouts !!!

Garden News

6-27 update

Gardens look so poor !!! We are watering, but have to be careful to not run the spring dry.

We've been eating tomatoes since the 4th of June or so. With the salmonella/tomatoe scare, we are very glad to be able to have our own. I am not sure how many plant we have in the front garden, but I counted the back garden this morning and we have 75 tomatoe plants out there !!!

It's been too dry, I was not able to save most of my pepper plants and they died due to heat and drought. I have a few hearty plants that still look nice and I've got "late" seeds in soil.

A late batch of tomatoes is up really nice, I hope I can keep them wet enough to keep them happy !!!

Wild Blackberries are just about ripe, we've picked a few of the plants that I bought from Stark's last spring. I'd love to get more plants from them !!

We are now about 20 inches short on rainfall since Jan '07 !! Lawns look like it's Aug already !! Grass is getting crunchy ... hay fields are not producing much.

Zac, a 6 month old Yorkie-poo, joined the family on March 1st. He's sure livened things up for us :-)

Here's Eisenhower and 2 of the girls.

I call him Ike sometimes and David informed me that his name is Eisenhower!!! :-)