I'm hoping to find time to go through my seed collection to see what I have left. I swear some things got left behind at the old house, and I know at least some of the seeds were in the basement when it flooded. Either way, it will give me a chance to get reacquainted with my collection, and get it better organized.
I took another nature walk today. I took the camera with me. Lots and lots of photos taken. This place is so beautiful, I feel so blessed to live here. Gypsy is on day five of her antibiotics and is doing much better. She still sneezes a little here and there, but she is active. So much so that she followed me on part of my nature walk, climbing the trees near where I was photographing things. Luna came and climbed the trees too. It was so much fun to watch them run across the fallen tree trunks, playing in the sunlight coming down through the branches of the woods. Tonight I took the little white rooster (we call him Phil) and moved him to the bunny barn. This is an experiment. I'm hoping he will get along with Josh and the ducks, and that they will be able to go out and free-range, and then come back in at dark. Josh keeps the ducks safe, and brings them in at night. I'm hoping Phil will flock with them and come in at night. Why Phil as our little guinea pig chicken? Well, he's friendly, easy to catch, and doesn't mind me handling him. He follows me around the chicken coop, and several times has attempted to follow me when I leave the coop. I also noticed last night that Sterling (the big white rooster) went toe-to-toe with Phil and the Easter egger hen jumped in between to break them up before it got physical. That's enough motivation for me to put Phil in another building to make sure he's safe from the bigger rooster. His personality makes him an excellent selection for release to free-range. No new baby bunnies, no more eggs. Yet. I'm still holding out hope for more eggs, now that I've got a timer set on my phone to remind me to turn the lights on and off to allow for 15 hours of light every day in the coop. I'm hoping to get the rabbit tractor pulled apart tomorrow to use it as a barrier for the rabbits to allow the chickens to go out too. I have Kin and Kai's cgae set up again in the barn. I did notice they have started to squabble now and then in the tractor. I won't be able to put them back together in a smaller cage again. The plan is to put Kai back in the bunny barn in the cage (he is available for sale if anyone is interested), and Kin will stay with the fencing and merge into the chicken coop herd. While out and about today on the homestead, I found another patch of asparagus, far off in a hard to access part of the property. I came across the most stereotypical "spooky tree" I've ever seen in real life - complete with a hollow trunk! I'm hoping to find time to go through my seed collection to see what I have left. I swear some things got left behind at the old house, and I know at least some of the seeds were in the basement when it flooded. Either way, it will give me a chance to get reacquainted with my collection, and get it better organized. During my nature walk I harvested a pocket full of Siberian pea shrub seeds, two pods of milkweed seeds, and nine apples. I had gone out in hopes of gathering up more buckeye seeds and more black walnuts, but instead gathered these. Still a blessing. The pea shrub seeds I hope to share with other gardeners in the second annual swap through the Winter Sowing (Vegetable Gardening With Sheryl Mann) Facebook group. If you want some pea shrub seeds, feel free to contact me directly, or join the Facebook group and join the seed swap!
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