Yeah any time it looks like it *might* rain, I hose my car off really quick and taunt the sky.
Lol, lots of comments about the olive eggers. So they came from
TSC, DH picked them out so... who knows really, lol, but! I've never had olive eggers before, and when I was reading up I saw it said they could look a number of different ways depending on the breeds they were derived from, and then I didn't give it another thought. Until I found a relatively dark brown egg and another that's speckled. I said to myself... "Speckled? What the heck? The only two with bright red combs are the olive.... eggers... uh oh." So I got poking around online and read that cuckoo marans pretty typically lay a dark, speckled egg. Look up the breed and bam! Yeah, that's what they look like. Cuckoo Marans. Dark gray bird with soft barring to my eyes, 'course I'm no expert so that's just what my eyeballs see. I'm not the refund chasing sort (I hate interacting with people in real life as a general rule of thumb) and wouldn't have a receipt at this point anyway, so ... meh. I have 3 cuckoo marans, with possibly two laying.
I will figure out over the next couple of days if it's only one or two. My lavender orp lady, by far the most sedate bird in the flock so far, is the only other one old enough to be laying, but she hasn't got the red comb yet. I should get a picture of her and the rooster at some point. They're both beautiful.
I watered the garden briefly earlier and now I'm about to pop out and harvest some more okra. I've been just cutting one or two pods a day and slicing them and throwing them in a bag in the freezer. When I get enough, or when the plants give up on life, I'll bread them and fry them. I intend to save seed from these plants this year as well.
too far though.
It was in the back and I didn't see how far it was. 
