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[chickadoodles]

Quote: Cynthia, I pray she will continue to recover.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Covered with a lot of hair; hairy.

 

[vehve]

Finally, some rain. Hopefully we'll get enough to wet the ground properly. Nice thunder going on too.

 

[chickisoup]

Finally, some rain. Hopefully we'll get enough to wet the ground properly. Nice thunder going on too.

We finally got a very nice soaking rain yesterday, twice! What a blessing!!! It was so cute to watch the chicks come out and play in the puddles

Hope you get a nice, sound soaking rain as well.

 

[vehve]

Quote: Nope, we didn't. I left a bucket out to see how much we get, 1 millimeter was about what was to be seen on it's bottom. That's 1/25 of an inch. I'm still hoping that we would get some more, but the rain clouds seem to have switched direction and are moving east now. But even this little amount helped a bit, and at least it cooled the air down a bit again.

The weather is working for boosting egg laying though. With Wilma's first egg, and the others making a deposit too, we got our first day with 5 eggs today. Karin made a nice arrangement with them in the nest and took some pictures.

 

[Bunnylady]

@vehve Oooh. ain't that a pretty picture! When you've been waiting for them, eggs seem so beautiful it almost seems a shame to eat them! (Didn't I see a post from someone on this forum that said she carefully blew out each of her hens' first eggs, and made a wreath out of them?)

We've had a couple of days with no rain, and even a bit of a breeze, so things are quite a bit drier than they were. (OK, so we got a shower a couple of nights ago, only us, when there was no precip in the forecast, but it was less than a quarter of an inch so it hardly counts). It looks like break time is over - we're heading back into the soup, with a 20% to 70% chance of rain for as far into the future as the forecast goes. So, today, I'll be making swales and berms around the barn, to see if I can encourage it to run off rather than make more mud. Fun, fun!

 

[vehve]

@vehve Oooh. ain't that a pretty picture! When you've been waiting for them, eggs seem so beautiful it almost seems a shame to eat them! (Didn't I see a post from someone on this forum that said she carefully blew out each of her hens' first eggs, and made a wreath out of them?)

We've had a couple of days with no rain, and even a bit of a breeze, so things are quite a bit drier than they were. (OK, so we got a shower a couple of nights ago, only us, when there was no precip in the forecast, but it was less than a quarter of an inch so it hardly counts). It looks like break time is over - we're heading back into the soup, with a 20% to 70% chance of rain for as far into the future as the forecast goes. So, today, I'll be making swales and berms around the barn, to see if I can encourage it to run off rather than make more mud. Fun, fun!

They're so tasty though, and it would be a shame to waste them... And pictures last too. So far we haven't had two olive eggs at the same time yet, so I'm going to hold on to that one for a while and see if there's some variation in the coloring. I think I'll do the same for the brown. That was her first egg, and the outermost spotted paint layer is a weird greyish brown, I'm hoping it will develop into a bit darker color.

 

[bamadude]

Here is a pic of that mutant squash compared to yellow crookneck.

 

[ronott1]

Here is a pic of that mutant squash compared to yellow crookneck.

Was the plant a volunteer or started from last years seeds? Most plants today will not reproduce pure plants since they are hybrids.

 

[vehve]

You guys are probably starting to get your beans ready, so I thought I'd share today's dinner as inspiration. The store had some beautiful steaks, so I whipped up some bacon beans and steamed potatoes fried in bacon fat to go along with it. Yum!

What is on the dinner table around the globe tonight?