Warm weather makes for constant busyness

   

     It's been awhile since I last posted, due to being constantly busy. With Spring arriving, warm weather, conferences, and Spring Break chores around here have been slowly getting done. Of course with it being nice, we stopped at some nurseries to check out plants, trees, and bushes. Came home with more plants for the front yard and a bunch of seed packs. Cleaned up some more of the blackberry brush next to the property line in the back where the garden  is going and was able to burn a small portion of it. Still have over half left to pull out and move away from the property line so we can take out the tree that is growing through the fence. We did finally measure where the final garden will be, a whopping 34ft wide by 118ft long! We won't ever have to worry about not having enough room to grown everything we want, or at least I hope that is the case. However, so much more needs to be done before we can even start fencing it in and planting anything. Acquired some Stinging Nettle from a lady off of Craigslist, scored some really large pots from her as well. Finally dug up the holly bush that was growing in the yard and it's now in a pot since I cannot decide where it will go if I decide to keep it.
   

Since we have been busy with things around the house we decided to take a break and head off to Sequim, to the Olympic Game Farm. The kids had a blast feeding the animals and I got some pictures but realize that I definitely need to start shopping for a better lens.

Curly, our Ameraucana rooster.

 




   Now that things have cooled back off and the week is half over, it's time for us to get ready to start thinking about creating some hatching eggs. We currently have 3 roosters; a barn yard mix, a Rhode Island Red, and what we think is an Ameraucana rooster. We have a couple of Easter Egger hens that we would like to breed with the Ameraucana rooster. Then eventually do some sex-link chicks by crossing our Rhode Island Red rooster with our Barred Rock hens.

That's all for now. Hopefully soon I will be getting started on the Permaculture for the Blueberry plants, so I have something more informative to show you.