amending the soil....muscovies.....

How to I amend the soil here in my garden......

I add the rabbit manure after I clean out from under the rabbit cage, or course I do add chicken manure to the beds as well...when I clean out the chicken pen....This is one of things I do...

sometimes I leave the rabbit cage off the pieces of wood I have them on ...so that the chickens and ducks can get all those yummy bugs.....

another thing I do is add garden wastes at the end of the growing season...old tomato plants, bean plants what have you...they mainly go into to my compost beds for now.....I also add coffee grounds with the coffee filters and egg shells from the kitchen as well as banana peels, and other goodies from the kitchen , nothing with any grease or rather fat on it...no meat or bones...My chickens for the most part free range and of course they do get into the garden and scratch it a bit as well.

Here is a few pictures of my mums that was planted last year in the garden, thought you might enjoy them.

 I turned Sparkles and her three babies, yet to be named..I thought I had lost one, but then found it wandering around by itself...I have since gave it back to her....the babies are about a week and half old right now.....George the Buff rooster just had to get into the picture....lol

Mascara hatched out 9 babies this past weekend...this is her second bunch this year....Now all I left now setting for the year is Lavender...

Another busy week of practice and games this week....

PBR, Another loss, Cochins....

Just a few pictures from the PBR when we went last Friday night....sorry so blurry , my oldest took them with her Ipod, since I forgot my camera.....we had a fun night out to the PBR....Thanks to the American Cancer society for getting us tickets.....

My oldest played away game and won one set , then lost the two sets.....she had fun though, so that is all that counts and she got to play and had her hand on the ball a few times as well....One hit went into the crowd and she later said that embarrassed her that it went to the crowd, I told her it happens to everybody....

Saturday starts Hooping it up for the youngest...her love of basketball....Her regular season starts in January.

              Just a pic of Elizabeth with Shay and Dawson enjoying this nice weather

 

                                                               from the garden, piñata rose

                                                            now on to the cochins chickens

 

                                                         out of Bert and his ladies

 

                                                            Bluebeard, a blue frizzle roo

                                       the blue one I bought this year, not good feather on feet

 

                          Belle, one of the chicks that I got with the blue hen...a hen, yay
           I might put her in with Gizmo next year, not for sure yet or with Bert

 

                                       sad to say this one is looking like a roo, was so hoping for a hen to put with attitude to start a blue laced red cochin project

                                              
                                               Spike, another frizzled roo

                             
This one has some unique coloring on him, really don't know what color he is considered on what color hen would be best to put him with....

 

Here is an updated pic of the black one I picked up this spring as well....another roo....

Well we don't have practice today....the coach is giving the JV girls a day off, so When I go and pick up the girls from school , I might bring Cricket along....she loves to go to school with me...some might asked how I know that she wants to go ....she jumps up and she will go jump in the car when the door is open of course....she hasn`t been to school this year yet....some of the other kids have been asking about her...

Well I think that is enough for now...everyone have a wonderfull day and rest of the week.

busy,busy,busy....

It has been very busy around here lately. School has started here with both girls. I have been taking the oldest to volleyball practice every night...the games start next week...she has three games next week and of course I will post if they win or loose on here.. The oldest will be also working the concessions at some of the basketball games this year since she is a junior...goes towards their prom and senior trip...she will be working them thru out the year.....
now into a little garden....

      working on transferring all of the mint into the washer tub...so then the mint will be confined to the washer tub...hopefully it will stay in the tub....one of my projects for the garden for the fall.

here is a start to another project of mine for the garden.. a new iris bed...hubby is tired of mowing around the iris bed in the front yard...so transferring them to this bed...going to make it one long bed of irises, different colors.....love my irises.

                                     a little watermelon developing at least I think, better late then never..

                                              
                                               This rose the picture don`t do it justice

                    Our new truck, we sold the other one...it had over 400,000 miles on it and got this one the same day, so glad we finally have a full sized truck....one of my hubby`s coworkers says it`s a ford ranger on steroids , that`s what a f150 is, lol.

                                               now on to some animals and building

                                   This is a chicken coop I am working on....I had a weird request for our anniversary present this year...I got a drill....besides the truck....am planning on putting nest boxes on the back end of it....Bandit just had to get in the pic.....
                                                        now animals, chickens first....

                                                  
                                           A pair of Seabrights, I traded for ducklings for.
                                          Hubby was wanting some again, wanting to breed a silver and a
                                        golden and to see what color we will get, just his project....
                                    
                                                            now ducks.....

                                                  
                                                  Mary and Lillie snugglin, oldest daughter took this pic
                                        with her Ipod.

                                                        
                                                    just plain Lillie, .changing and growing up

                                            
                                                           Mary, growing up....

                                         
            This is shay and dawson, hopefully both hens, Elizabeth`s babies, named them after some of the cast members in Chicago fire....the little yellow...shay almost lost her ,she was so tiny after hatching, so we are keeping her for now and she just had to have a friend...dawson a chocolate colored one...I am all about chocolate this year.....

Well I need to go and do the chores for the day, since a ballgame tonight.....everyone have a enjoyable weekend.....

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......