Mr.Roo

cock-a-doodle-doo!

summer bouquet

secret garden gate

August days.. tired of watering, chickens grazing, honeysuckle setting red berries for Fall, some flowers still going, everything so dry.
Mr.Roo had a crisis the other day! He somehow managed to get some string wrapped around one of his legs, and then when trying to jump off of a roost over the compost bin, caught the sting on a burr and was hanging upside down by one leg! DH just happened to come by and rescued him, bringing him in  for me to cut off the string. Mr.Roo was very calm in DH arms and looked over the living room, wondering if we had anything good for his hens to eat in here! He is a good boy for the most part always looking after the girls and getting them morsels to eat. Of course, after we saw him swinging upside down, we wondered if the old hens had strung him up there! Not all the girls have taken kindly to the roosters!

Have a wonderful 4th of July! We are blessed to live in the great country!

First Day of summer!

Spring has sprung! In the 80's today, then tonight the thunderstorm came up and dropped the temp 20 degrees. The roosters  are busy showing the Hens whats what, tho sometimes the hens turn on them and chase them awhile. Our white Roo clucks and gathers his hens, to show them something good to eat, and when it is time to go in at night. All in all very entertaining!

I hope your Easter was Blessed!

Thursday morning

Friday morning

"we are so hungry!"

Traumatized Daffodils

The difference one day makes!

Snow again! Today is the second day of spring, and we got 6-10 inches of snow during the night. The Chickie Girls were very reluctant to leave the Hen House, so were served their breakfast inside.
Power out, breaking tree limbs, cars in the ditch on the way into town rounded out my morning!

When we brought home our first 6 chicks, DH made a little hen house out of scraps of boards, plywood,etc he had bee carefully saving. It was approximate 4'x8'. Of course we couldn't stop with 6, so the next year we brought home 12! So he built another 4x6 addition. Well, this is year 4 and we now have 25 Big and Little Girl, and even 2 new Little Boys: Roo 1 and Roo 2. So it was time for a better Hen House.
Now my husband does not throw anything away, and can proudly tell you where each piece of wood came from 20 years before!  He did buy some roofing and screws, brackets etc for our new improved version  this time.

March 1st -snow under the Oaks

Meanwhile it is slowly becoming Spring! Last week we had snow, and this week the daffodils are blooming. I have visions of plant pots and new perennials dancing in my head, and will attempt to get my DH to let me design the vegetable garden, but doubt that will fly. He is always suspicious that I will plant more flowers than vegetables!
We are also trying out putting an egg sign down by the road, when we have too many. I have also been baking Quiches, scrambled eggs, angel food cake ( didn't turn out the best) just to try to use up the plentiful Spring eggs!