Early Spring Images (from 4/20)

Catmint

Onions and Lettuce
Garlic
Potatoes

Spring Garden

We finally got the rest of our seeds started last weekend. Better late than never I guess. Lilah loves helping mix the dirt and poking the seeds.

Here are the herbs I got from MOBOT. The Herb Society puts on an annual sale there and they are very nice quality and variety for a pretty low price.

Babies First Day Out

So, we took the baby chicks outside for the first time Sunday. They have hit the ugly losing down and getting feathers stage.

Sunflower House

Yesterday we got Lilah's Sunflower House started. It is basically an 8x8 square that will be surrounded by 12' sunflowers to create a living playhouse. I planted the sunflowers as well as some corn, scarlet runner beans, and calendula. This is my first attempt at direct sowing of flowers, so hopefully it works out all right. I saw birds messing with it this morning, hopefully they weren't eating the seeds!

You Keep on Knockin'

But you can't come in!
Poor girls were sick of the rain so they started knocking on the door:) It drove Marley crazy but I thought it was pretty funny. You hear a knock, open the door, and find three chickens waiting. They seriously looked at me like "c'mon, let us in."

"Dappadills!"

Today was pretty much a lazy day. Last night Dan was working late on his rock wall (after picking up more rock and a new camera!) so everyone got to bed late. I took a gazillion pics though playing with it.

Lilah is now fascinated with "Dappadills" aka daffodils, and picks them quicker than you can catch her:) I'm just going to post an assortment of photos from today.....not much else got done:)

BABIES!!!!!

So, we went ahead and got our chicks today. I was going to mail order them, but Fenton Feed Mill had Ameracaunas which were the ones I wanted the most, so we just went there. Lilah loved helping to pick them out. Cian just had fun playing with my keys.


The three ameracaunas
Curry Pate'

AlfredoCacciatore
A Rhode Island Red


Tetrazzini

A Silver-Laced Wyandotte

Fingers

A Light Brahma

Springs of Yesteryear

These are pics from April 10, 2005. I have nothing new to show today, so I thought I'd post something bright since its so dreary. I havent really changed the bulbs too much, but I will take pics of the current garden when it stops raining. Right now the daffodils are all blooming, the tulips dont look like they're that close, but we'll see.