Today's harvest includes three chicken eggs, two apples, and one tomato (from the Old German tomato plant outside that's still fighting off the cold nights and had five more tomatoes still on the vine yet).
I love the new flamingos, but I have to wonder. With those cute little craft-eyes, will the chickens leave them alone? Or peck their eyes off? I'll have to use permanent marker to draw them on if the chickens decide to be jerks.
Either way, here are our new flamingo friends.
And despite a couple nights last week in the mid 30's, here's the Old German tomato, which was grown in the ground outside so I can't bring it in, putting out new flowers! What a tenacious plant! I wonder if tossing a sheet over it would get it through tomorrow night. I'm tempted to buy a big clear plastic sheet and see if I can't make some sort of make-shift greenhouse for the plant, just to extend it's life a little longer. Here in central Minnesota it certainly wouldn't get it through the hard winter, but maybe long enough to ripen those last five tomatoes. Hmmm.... To spend money on a clear plastic blanket for the Old German tomato or not to... I guess my husband and finances will dictate that.