Chickens & The Merc

For a few days last summer our '62 Colony Park station wagon was parked in front of our 100- year-old rock barn. While playing with the color swap mode on the Canon Power Shot The skirt pressed the shutter on this whole mess of, station wagon, tractor and chickens. I know sharing this photo with you puts us at risk of comparisons to The Egg & I. That's the reason's I took the shot, it looked like the homestead of the "eccentric country bumpkins." It was a temporary, but authentic moment and now I own it.

By the way, we have very happy chickens and they lay a dozen big, beautiful eggs every day. Want some?

Our Vegetable Garden Day 90

Here is our garden 90 days into it. Those are 10-foot high sunflower plants in the background. They have bloomed since The Skirt took this photo on August 13th. (I'll post a picture later this week.) We are harvesting Walla Walla onions, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, beets, carrots, greens, Acorn squash, peppers, a few tomatoes and buckets and buckets of cucumbers. Bob has put up almost 50 quarts of pickles! I know what everyone is getting for Christmas.

PS Chickens will walk on razor blades for cucumbers. You have to cut them open for them.

PSS Garden on day 60

We've Got Eggs!

Our eight, six-month old Black Star hens are laying eggs. They started around August 3rd and average about 4 - 5 eggs a day. We also have 10 Buff Orphington hens old enough to be laying. Our birds have run of the barnyard. Hope the Buffs are not laying in the shrubs somewhere.

Waiting For An Egg

We added chickens to our little farm this year. Here's one of our 52-day old Buff Orpingtons. Still have three and half months before we see an egg.