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Lordy Lu: What’s new
Such days, such busy days. Been reading, working in the garden, taking care of chickies, cats, birds, people, and self. Weather, projects, house, life. Busy days, I tell you. Biggest project has been the raised beds. Here come the photos, my little chickadees. So here’s the chicken coop with a new green corrugated roof. That took us a weekend day to repair. The coop still needs a solid door, as we discovered last night — either an electric fence or steel spikes dug down at least a foot into the earth. Yes, our raccoony friends were here overnight and dug underneath, into the coop. Luckily, the chickies still sleep in the garage,…
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manana ketchup
I mean, I’ll catch up on the blogging tomorrow. A dear friend of mine has been ill for almost 2 weeks and that has been weighing heavily on my mind. Hard to sit and think when someone you care for is hurting. But she’s turned the corner and I am getting my focus back. Plus, we’ve been awfully busy in the garden. Uploading photos tomorrow of new raised beds, building, the reroofed chicken house and so on. Thanks for your patience. xxx, me
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Today’s to-dos (and to-dids)
Nurse sore finger. Feed chickies. Feed cats. Feed birds. Make coffee. Eat breakfast. Load dishwasher, clean up kitchen. Drink more coffee. Think about sore finger. Wash a load of Mr. Husband’s shirts. Hang to dry outside, since it’s sunny and windy. Straighten up where the smaller people have been. Do these chores with index finger elevated and try to keep it out of harm’s way. Look at garden and try to figure out how to add in extra raised beds and where the wood will come from. Buy it new? Bite your tongue. Post a want-ad on Freecycle asking for corrugated aluminum or plastic to fix the chicken coop roof.…
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weekend wrap
Just winding down from a mostly sunny and productive weekend. We started excavating our garden to make room for the chicken coop yesterday. We’ve had a very productive and successful garden for 3 years (see typical view, above) but with the addition of the chickies, we needed to rearrange things. Plus, the large container/box we’ve used for 3 years, made of plywood, is rotting away. Note to prospective raised-garden folk: do not bother with plywood. Luckily, we never paid for any of the materials but had Dumpster-found them, so we’re sending them on to landfill much more shredded than it originally was. We’d burn it but plywood is not good…
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chicka chicka boom boom!
The chickies are here! Meet Daisy, Poppy, Rosie, Violet and Bluebell, one of each of several different breeds of chickens that were waiting to come home with me from Penngrove Hay and Grain. They are happy in their little box-home and as soon as the rain stops, they will go outside and get a little bit of sunshine. We are set to get a premade chicken run from good neighbors Erin and Jack (bee- and chicken-keepers, awesome writers, good people). They also have a hen house for us but it may be too big to get here. We shall see. Sunday is the day. But here they are, and aren’t…
