between the raindrops....

I went out today and took some pictures of the garden and some random pictures before it started raining again....hope u enjoy!

                                         
                         Little Miss(hope it is a Miss) Mary Margaret is starting to get some feathers.

                                    
                         Glimmer/Lillie is also enjoying the rain , she is free -ranging with mom now

 

Here is Cheetah enjoying the bouts of motherhood...she had 16 baby chicks , we lost one. these baby chicks come out of the incubator and she took them..

 

             Cuckoo maran chicks , I picked up in the rain Saturday at farmers market, 5 of them

   

another shot of them , my youngest daughter`s chick(older one) is mother hen to them, this morning all of the baby chicks were under it, I have the 5 cuckoo Maran chicks and the little Cochin chick and its disabled buddy in there and the older chicks had almost all of them under it.

 

 

Just a couple of the surprise lilies coming up despite the rain, ..

 

                                               The squash is taking over the bed they are in....

                                                         Squash I picked today.......

    
                                      The total of the squash from the last few days....

 
                                What I picked today..............besides the squash between the raindrops

                                  
                                               The little cochin chick that hatched out last week, want to raise myself , so I can watch how it color  develops, it had to have a friend....

                           Sparkles is setting again.....maybe no one will take over her nest this time

Our little road with some of the rain this morning....last week road graders graded it and it was ruff on the end towards the school....I seen the graders out this morning going toward the school on our road.

 

Little mushrooms are popping everywhere because of the rain and I would say the cool nights.

I guess that is all for today....everyone enjoy the rain, I know I am....considering it is August and usually don`t get that much rain and I don`t have to haul jugs of water to my garden, no hose close enough to it......

babies here now.....

                                  A frizzle showed up in one of my cochins, this one is out of my Columbian pen  .I do have a birchen hen in there. I did have frizzles at one time

 

I kept this one back just to see what color it would turn out  to be ...he was chocolate in color as a chick...looks like a roo, from my brown egg layers. The top two are with Indian.

             
                                           A blue cochin, I picked up at farmers market

           
                                           A black cochin , I picked up at farmers market
                                       the above two are with a mixed hen that insisted on setting

         
                                          This little one`s wings looks like a butterfly wings....looks like a rooster

                                             
                                              I hope this one is a hen......a calico, maybe...

                                                                    Spike, a frizzle roo

                                              Don`t know about this one, it has some gold leaking thru the blue,
                                               another roo I think

                                                 
                                          another roo looks like it
                          The above 5 are from a blue cochin hen I picked up at a local swap

                                              
                                                  Introducing Mis Mary Margaret
                                               Mascara`s baby we are keeping

                                
                   This is Lilly according to my oldest....I think glimmer, can`t tell in the picture , but it looks light silver......survivor/sparkles baby, don`t really know which one as they both were laying there at the same time...lol

          
                                             This is another chick from the Columbian pen , only a few days old

           
I know this one isn`t a baby, but he is my new roo...a buff bantam cochin....hoping to raise buff barred bantam cochins...now need a barred hen...I do have some buff hens for him .

Here are some more babies.....tigeress had four little kitties....looks like 1 male and 3 female, two have tails and two don`t....tigeress is a bob-tailed kitty

that is all the babies for now......I just love baby animals...they are so cute.......

alitte of everything.....

 First off , the garden.....the green horned tomatoes worms have hit...grrrrr. I have been picking them off by hand and watering them every day with soapy water, this is helping somewhat, still have to pick them off though.

 

                                                   The above pic of the tomatoes

 A couple of pictures of the hens and chicks in the garden. The one in the cooler I just moved from a washer tub, they wasn`t doing what I wanted ....I wanted them to grow out of the little holes in the tub. Was thinking on trying to find some glass pop bottles, to put in this cooler, don`t know where I could find any, that isn`t expensive. I replanted the little ones in the wheelbarrow to spread them out alittle.

                                 
                                        My one and only so far canna blooming, one of the clearance bulbs I got

                                     
                                                            Mums are starting to bloom

                                                      
                                                  Cucumbers are having to be trained to climb up

                                  
                                                   A daylily blooming

                                        
   this is a picture of the chicks that have hatched this week, two are which of are cochins...yay... they are from my Columbian cochin pair, I do admit their is a birchen hen in there as well.

                                      
                                            This is Mascara with her little one, in which am keeping for now
                                 have named her Mary, the oldest calls her Mary Margaret from once upon a time
                                    show.

             The above picture is buff cochin banty hens I traded for Muscovy ducklings to get these. will not trade with these people again, unless their birds are better looking then these were....they was half dead...I gave them some apple cider vinegar water and have given tlc and still have not put them with my chickens. Yes I did get two reds one as well. They do look better then they did when I first got them. I probably won`t use them for eggs or breeders this year.

                  last of the chickens, this is my standard cochin Big boy, he is such a sweetheart.

                                                                     Now on to quilting

                                              The center block is done except for the star...beading

                                                   January block is done except for the star( beading) and some of the branches for the tree....gotta try and find what I need to do the branches. also need some grass on there as well.

This is a start to the August block, I know I should to do the next month , but have decided to do the block with the lions on it, so I won`t use the yarn up for the mane of the lion.

Well everyone have a beautiful day.....

more garden, a little farm along the way.....

     
         These two hollyhocks, I did not plant this year or any other year. .surprise!....where the deeper pink is , one came last year in the same spot, the lighter pink is a new spot, they are so pretty.
Thank God for those flowers

 On to the beans, sorry no tators here this year....I have one wee little bean on this pole bean....

                                          This pole bean is starting to bloom, soon beans

                                           
                                                  Have gotten a few yellow wax beans

                
                                    Just another view of the pole beans and wax bean in the iron bed
                                   I am planning on canning some beans this year , I will be mixing them,
                               while canning them, hopefully everything will work out, I might have
                            beans coming out everywhere.

On to the cucumbers, they aren`t going crazy like the pole beans on the other side, but they are starting to travel up the rope alittle. I have had a couple of little cukes before this one , but they looked dried up so, I pinched them off , I hope that this don`t start looking all yellow and dried up.

                              I have marigolds planted in several place in my garden,...a few ladybugs, I tried to get a picture of one, but it turned out fuzzy. I have not had any issues with the horn tomato worm so far this year, knock on wood.

                                                               now on to the farm

                       
  My oldest hen Indian, first time she has ever set and she did good so far, she hatched out 9 and I hatched out about 10 in the bator and have rehomed a few and she has the 3 that I decided to keep
A silkie mix, cochin and mixed brown egg layers that is chocolate in color, hope they aren`t roosters
By the way , Indian is about 4 years old, and when she was laying, she laid about an egg every other day...she is a mixed hen....the silkie mix is her grandbaby ...I kept a pair from her last year, was gonna rehome them but the hen started to lay and decided to keep.

                                        Lavender hatched out 15 babies...they have been rehomed
                                         Mascara is next in line to hatch and noticed today that Aflac
                                        has started laying.

                                               
                                  A picture of baby chicks that were hatched out of incubator
                                               Different colors, mostly black this time around
                                Both incubators are full, one due next week again.

   Here is what I have harvested from the garden the past two days, sorry the one little tomato didn`t make it to the picture....it sure was good, even though the size wasn`t so good. Sorry when I was getting green onions, I didn`t post a picture of them or the turnips I have eaten either.
One of blackberry briars have slowly started to ripen , a few each day....I need to go and check the wild ones. I am planning on keeping these until get enough to can at least the beans, don`t know about the blackberries.