The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

I didn't get my garden in last year either and I sure miss it this winter. I am looking forward to getting into the garden this year. Last year we were too busy building a house for my mom. Her new house sits at the back of our property. She goes out and gathers the eggs during the day while we are at work so they don't freeze in these sub zero temps we are having. If she doesn't think the girls are laying well she starts talking to them about how good some chicken stew would taste. Never fails as the next day every hen we have will lay an egg!

"Mom the Chicken Whisperer"! LOL

 

[Triple Willow]

So cute and I so agree! Hahaha

 

[Beekissed]

I also did not have a garden last year. I had a series of surgeries and couldn't find the strength. It was difficult not walking through it with admiration. This year it's not holding me back. I am having a huge garden again. Oh come on spring!!! My husband and I are having a hive built for us by the Amish family down the road. We use it for allergies here among other things. One tablespoon a day for everyone and no sneezing or stuffy noses for the day.God's natural allergy cure. It has to be honey within a 2 mile radius due to the local pollen that are collected by the bees. Something else to look forward too.

So exciting! We use honey like that too but we have no growers that close. The local health food store has honey from flower varieties much like our local ones so it's the best we can do. If we remember to keep up with it, it really works.

We are scaling down in total size but intensifying our planting with the square foot method. Also moving our garden over a little...sometimes we rotate the ends and won't use one end of the flat for several years, then switch sides and leave the other end fallow for several. I'm planting lettuces and greens in the years of fallow side where it's a little shady and the other end will be planted to wild flowers to be our sacrifice rows/plot.

I checked in but since there wasn't much going on I went and sat by the fire and read a good book!

That's what I've been doing....lying down and reading a book, trying to get to feeling like cleaning and making bread.

I didn't get my garden in last year either and I sure miss it this winter. I am looking forward to getting into the garden this year. Last year we were too busy building a house for my mom. Her new house sits at the back of our property. She goes out and gathers the eggs during the day while we are at work so they don't freeze in these sub zero temps we are having. If she doesn't think the girls are laying well she starts talking to them about how good some chicken stew would taste. Never fails as the next day every hen we have will lay an egg!

I like your mom...she sounds like me!!

The day after I do my spring cull I swear even the rooster has laid an egg!

 

[IAFarmGirl]

So cute and I so agree! Hahaha

I sure hope He is listening to that little boy!

 

[lovingmyhens]

I'm listening to some good sermons and working on my incubator project tonight and am really loving how it's working out. Getting excited to see it all put together and if it works the way I think it will. I think you all will get a hoot out of it!

who do you listen to?

 

[lindz8504]

 

[Beekissed]

who do you listen to?

I've been absorbing sermons by Damian Kyle, a fellow the Holy Spirit led me to recently that I can't get enough of. I listen to him while I sew on a project or do housework and all the sermons find a resting place in my heart.

What a sturdy, serious little guy!!! He looks like he's trying to act all grown up and responsible.

He's very beautiful. How's he doing around the chooks...trying to round them up?

 

[lindz8504]

What a sturdy, serious little guy!!! He looks like he's trying to act all grown up and responsible.

He's very beautiful. How's he doing around the chooks...trying to round them up?

He is trying to round them up constantly! He is very driven and I have had to call him off a few times... He is constantly tormenting the cat however, and I have to figure out how to break him from that! He also freaks out on the leash, and sounds like you are killing him! Shew, I forgot how much work a puppy is! He is very smart, but he is also VERY stubborn! He has absolutely NO recall if I am standing up, but will come to me if I am sitting down. UNLESS we are outside... It is totally crazy and frustrating! I've never dealt with a dog like this! Its like he wants attention, but is afraid of it at the same time...

 

[Beekissed]

He is trying to round them up constantly! He is very driven and I have had to call him off a few times... He is constantly tormenting the cat however, and I have to figure out how to break him from that! He also freaks out on the leash, and sounds like you are killing him! Shew, I forgot how much work a puppy is! He is very smart, but he is also VERY stubborn! He has absolutely NO recall if I am standing up, but will come to me if I am sitting down. UNLESS we are outside... It is totally crazy and frustrating! I've never dealt with a dog like this! Its like he wants attention, but is afraid of it at the same time...

Is he very food motivated? If so, it can help you get some repetition into his training by offering a small food reward each time he does something right. You can even accompany that with a clicker if you want so you can graduate from food to clicker training. My Jake was very food motivated(the Lab side of him) and so he was a breeze to train on basic commands and got them all in one evening when he was 2-3 mo. old.

 

[Beekissed]

I was pretty excited to see an egg from my very last hatchery WR hen in the nest this morning....now I can add it to my hatch and have a little piece of her left before she stops laying entirely. Now, if I can get one from Little Red Hen and Fanny I'll be on cloud nine! Even if they are mixed with a breed of rooster I'd never want genetics from, they are all I have right now and so will have to suffice. Should be interesting to see that cross, if nothing else.