What did you do in the garden today?

[MissChick@dee]

OMG! I'm being treated to an amazing light show right now - the sun is actually shining through the clouds. I drove to the grocery store while I was waiting for the misty rain to clear up this morning and on the way back home I passed the Flea Market down the road. There were a couple of guys selling vegetable plants. What luck. I found really healthy Roma tomato plants to replace the ones drowning in my garden and I picked up some broccoli plants. I've never had much luck with broccoli on my previous property, but I was feeling lucky so I bought a pack. The price was amazing, $3 for a six pack of plants. So I spent $6 for both the tomatoes and broccoli. After lunch I was able to get the roof on the chicken run extension and I hauled 11 Homer buckets of muddy dirt to cover the HC. It still needs a few more buckets but I needed to rest and it was time for the chickens "dinner." After I took care of them I planted my pole beans and the broccoli plants. Wow, and the sun is still shining and it's like 65F right now. After all the rain I feel like I'm in an alternate universe right now.

 

[jerryse]

Found 6 morels plus a few asparagus from my patch . Mowed .Beautiful day .

 

[Searsmom]

Nope found the cats had penetrated the little green coop so new deeper hardware cloth
will be placed along the perimeter buried 4 inches all around I was happy when we built it without a floor but placing 12 x 12 around the bottom is not enough to keep the cats out

Oh wow. Our chickens chase the barn cats, I got lucky on that I guess. Funny to see when I dump scraps in the compost, the cats get there first but the chickens definitely take over. I've had to feed the cats up high for years now or the chickens get all that too. The cats do still chase mice, but I feed them too much for them to go after voles. Ooops.

 

[WthrLady]

Managed to finish putting the mulch on the walking paths today. I also planted all the new grapes, the raspberries, blackberries.

Then I mowed the whole acreage.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Little peeps or the silky are in danger my Big birds know them the cats can take naps in the main coop they know they mess with them they get their butts kicked

 

[WthrLady]

Morels are a huge no no here this year. The flooding has contaminated the areas they grow, if the areas were washed away entirely. They're telling us, let it be for 2 years. Usually they bring about 40$ a pound.

I speeding truck killed my entire family of baby killdeer birds this morning.

They hatched two days ago. Yesterday the chicks were running around the front yard and around in the rock bed that mom had the nest. Last night, they were running back and forth across the "neighborhood" road. THEY ARE SO TINY about the size of a long legged 50 cent piece, and they're fast and almost invisible.

This morning I was leaving and I was stopped at the stop sign. I saw a tourist hauling a boat up the road FLYING then I noticed mom and dad in the road and all 4 babies too. Mom and dad ran off one side to "distract" the truck from the babies (it's what they do) But when they do that, the babies freeze to hide. The truck took them all out. So here I am bawling, in the middle of the road, picking up tiny bodies, while mom and dad are in the ditch trying to now distract me. I feel so badly for them.

I know they'll make more, but damn it, they didn't have a chance.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am so sorry you lost your birds like that how awful to see and find

 

[MissChick@dee]

Morels are a huge no no here this year. The flooding has contaminated the areas they grow, if the areas were washed away entirely. They're telling us, let it be for 2 years. Usually they bring about 40$ a pound.

I speeding truck killed my entire family of baby killdeer birds this morning.

They hatched two days ago. Yesterday the chicks were running around the front yard and around in the rock bed that mom had the nest. Last night, they were running back and forth across the "neighborhood" road. THEY ARE SO TINY about the size of a long legged 50 cent piece, and they're fast and almost invisible.

This morning I was leaving and I was stopped at the stop sign. I saw a tourist hauling a boat up the road FLYING then I noticed mom and dad in the road and all 4 babies too. Mom and dad ran off one side to "distract" the truck from the babies (it's what they do) But when they do that, the babies freeze to hide. The truck took them all out. So here I am bawling, in the middle of the road, picking up tiny bodies, while mom and dad are in the ditch trying to now distract me. I feel so badly for them.

I know they'll make more, but damn it, they didn't have a chance.

We had mallard ducks that came every year to raise their young in a area called Indian Cove a natural hot springs area. We (the locals too) were devastated that all but 3 or 4 were killed. They were all laying on the divider line of the highway some smashed some just crumpled up. Best I can figure is that instead of coming into the lake parallel to the highway they came in for a landing across the highway.
And ran right into a semi truck. Such a freak thing we’ll probably never know. It was a tragic sight I’d never seen anything like it. Saw 3 mallards this year where there used to be about 20.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning hope everyone may have a good day here going to see what I may do in the coop or garden

 

[Searsmom]

Rain finally let up. Sprayed the last of the pots. Too muddy for anything else. Fixed up a place for the chicks. Putting them in after the rest of the flock is in. Chaos will ensue.