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[Farmin Momma]

My other sickness is gardening. Always another plant I can't live without.
Here are some summer blooms.
Wish you all could smell these David Austin roses....


Evelyn


Mistress Quickly (I would have named it Rumpled Bedsheets)


Abraham Darby

Oh wow those are so beautiful! I can't wait untill I figure out how to garden, flowers and food here I come! Also those eggs in the back ground of the first pic. I WANT THOSE CHOCOLATE EGGS SO BAD!

 

[RonB]

** Disclaimer.... I had chickens before the new city laws so my chickens get "grandfathered" in........**
Very strange how my roosters and hens change colors/sizes/shapes every few years or so..... wonder what that's about...

I'm sure its some Form of chicken math

 

[itsren]

Beautiful!

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

About chicken math...

My intention was to have 3 chickens.
It is still my intention.
Oh well.

When folks ask me how many I have, I say I have 3 very social chickens who enjoy having friends stay overnight.
You know the type - those "roost- surfers" who just never find a place of their own.
Mostly my problem has been those cute chicks that send messages like "take me home" and
"choose me, choose me"

I'm having the hardest time staying focused on work today.
The pleasure of working from home - so easy to visit the chickens, wander through the gardens, pick a few beets, look at photos on BYC....
OK, I'm going to work now, really, I am!

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Oh wow those are so beautiful! I can't wait untill I figure out how to garden, flowers and food here I come! Also those eggs in the back ground of the first pic. I WANT THOSE CHOCOLATE EGGS SO BAD!

Well, those chocolate eggs are now being laid at FireWifeJess' house by that red rumped BCM.
They are beautiful. I know I'll miss her and her pretty eggs.

My favorite combination of eggs in a carton are blue and chocolate brown eggs.
Makes a lovely gift for a neighbor.
OK, really, back to work!

 

[itsren]

Let's see...

Yesterday - found out I became a victim of an Internet crime and now I have to research our bank account.

Today - the fire alarm goes off, over and over. After multiple calls from the alarm company, and me reassuring them that I do not have a fire that I can see or smell, I contact DH and ask him to come home. He comes home, blows the alarm out with spray air and sets it off two more times. He wonders if the smoke that is floating in the air that has drifted over from the East side is setting off the alarm. We can see the smoke settling through the valley. Other than that, we can't for the life of us figure out why the alarm keeps going off.

Tomorrow - let's just hope and pray that the only eventful thing that happens is that the alarm company fixes the smoke alarm, 'cause I don't need a 3rd bad thing happening.

Oh... let's just count my being sick for that last 3 days the third. Can we, puh-lease???? Why does weird stuff happen when you're just too sick to cope with it.

On a better note.... can't wait for that UPS truck to get here. Our 4-H curriculum is on it and I can't wait to have something to look through.

 

[ErinMartin927]

What is a BCM?

Do any other breeds lay brown eggs like that?

 

[FirewifeJess]

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I love her eggs! Only got one so far, yesterday. Nothing from the EE yet. I can't wait to get more brown eggs though. Yesterday's egg was a bit weird, I'm assuming because she was moved and stressed. It was speckled and not very brown, more terra cottta, but I could see hints of the chocolate brown in there too. Nothing like the eggs on the counter in your flower pictures.

I should go check again, maybe one of them laid since I last went out there.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

What is a BCM?

Do any other breeds lay brown eggs like that?

Black Copper Marans - a French hen with feathers on her legs (so French

) and a bit of an attitude IMHO.
Marans lay the darkest egg. Wellsummers lay a dark egg that's quite nice too, but not as dark as Marans.

 

[FirewifeJess]

What is a BCM?

Do any other breeds lay brown eggs like that?

Black Copper Marans; lots of chickens lay dark eggs, but Marans lay the darkest. Welsummer chickens lay Terra Cotta eggs.