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[ValerieJ]

I depend a awful lot on the almanac.
I have a walking garlic it seeds itself.

Nice.

 

[Smokerbill]

Garlic is cleaned and stored on wire in baskets. Works great. Only 40 heads left that we get to eat this year. I set 12 aside for planting and we have eaten the rest already. 12 is about twice what we planted last year I think.

I read in Farmers Almanac today that some old time farmers of garlic say it learns, so it's best to grow your own because it adapts to your soil and improves each year. Guess that means we won't do anything different this year with the soil. Last year we enriched it with compost from the veggie pile and the chicken pile. Worked great.

I didn't know that garlic adapts. Interesting.

This fall I'm going to save the largest cloves for planting and eat the smaller ones. The large cloves grow into bigger heads, or so I've read.

I watched three pullets lay eggs today. Yellow and Yellow/Blue didn't lay so they'll probably lay tomorrow. Orange laid her biggest egg yet today. Blue and Pink laid nice little pullet eggs again.

Picked another few pound of tomatoes, so now I have enough to make my first batch of salsa, probably Thursday or Friday.

 

[ValerieJ]

I didn't know that garlic adapts. Interesting.

This fall I'm going to save the largest cloves for planting and eat the smaller ones. The large cloves grow into bigger heads, or so I've read.

I watched three pullets lay eggs today. Yellow and Yellow/Blue didn't lay so they'll probably lay tomorrow. Orange laid her biggest egg yet today. Blue and Pink laid nice little pullet eggs again.

Picked another few pound of tomatoes, so now I have enough to make my first batch of salsa, probably Thursday or Friday.

Well, I did save the 12 larges heads, but didn't take the cloves apart to check size. We'll see what happens. I'm happy with this year's harvest, but would like more next year. It's early September an we have used 16 heads already. We didn't start using them until a month ago.

 

[Smokerbill]

I watch Orange Band lay her egg a little while ago. She kind of quietly groans with each breath when her body's arched and she's pushing out the egg.

I cracked four eggs from unidentified pullets into the skillet. Only one of the four had a defect, which was a single dark meat spot. Otherwise they were perfect, with nice solid shells.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Had to put big girl britches on, made my mcmuffin.
Creature of habit that way.

 

[Smokerbill]

I should be getting fertile eggs soon. I caught the dominant New Hampshire cockerel "in the act" with the big Orange banded New Hampshire pullet. She gave a good shake after mating and didn't act like it was an imposition. And that's exactly the pairing I wanted for getting some hatching eggs.

Strange thing. The cockerels are 19 weeks old but haven't started crowing yet. I kind of hope they never do. LOL

 

[ValerieJ]

Spent most of the day in Olympia shopping for a suit for DH and shoes for me. Grandson getting married on Oct 2nd. Semi formal attire. Good grief. Who does that anymore? We, my grandson does.

Fortunately we went to Men's Wearhouse and were able to buy a beautiful black suit off the rack. That has never happened before with him. He is 6'5" and very trim, but at least not skinny. The European fit looked really great on him and that is popular today, so win win for a grandson's wedding.

I'm still looking for shoes. Don't want to order them online if I don't have to. We'll be going back on Friday or Saturday and look some more. My guess is I'll wear them once and never again. That bothers me a little.

I should be used to it. We used to be a Navy family. Lots of formal events and never wear a dress twice. Glad that is over.

 

[ValerieJ]

I should be getting fertile eggs soon. I caught the dominant New Hampshire cockerel "in the act" with the big Orange banded New Hampshire pullet. She gave a good shake after mating and didn't act like it was an imposition. And that's exactly the pairing I wanted for getting some hatching eggs.

Strange thing. The cockerels are 19 weeks old but haven't started crowing yet. I kind of hope they never do. LOL

Uh oh...they are growing up. Soon the squabbles will begin. Are you going to try to keep all of them? I can't remember.

 

[Smokerbill]

Uh oh...they are growing up. Soon the squabbles will begin. Are you going to try to keep all of them? I can't remember.

I'm keeping the one RIR cockerel and one of the NH cockerels, and the 5 NH pullets. It's about time for the older Barred Rocks to go somewhere else.

 

[ValerieJ]

I'm keeping the one RIR cockerel and one of the NH cockerels, and the 5 NH pullets. It's about time for the older Barred Rocks to go somewhere else.

Unfortunately, I think we have changed our mind on that. We may be getting close to the end with Cooper.

It just doesn't make sense. Sometimes I have to do what's best for the flock and not follow my heart. Always tough for me.