Due Date

Here's the washtub full of chicks! There are 22. There is one more still in the incubator that might make it. Two hatched out well but died. Two nearly hatched out and died. At least a couple more eggs cracked before the chicks died. All in all, an excellent hatching (that's out of 39 eggs incubated, and if anyone has personally had higher hatch rates in a small still air incubator, I want to know what you did exactly!).

That an egg, a single, unrefrigerated egg, has enough nutrition and magic in it to make a whole and entire chick in just 21 days is amazing to me. I know that it is good food.



amanita shrooms



Where does one kitten end and another begin? (Shelly, the grey and bottom black one are yours!)



And this is the corn crop circle of a few days ago. Think I could turn a thunderstorm into an agri-tourism event? Actually, we had all these tied back up before we went to the house that evening, and the whole crop is looking good.

There are some bean beetles in the first of the green beans that have delayed that harvest a bit but they should recover. We've been going down and putting in a hour all together just pulling weeks and cleaning off beds that have finished up every evening in the hopes of having something we've never had before: a garden cleaned out in July. One quarter of the circle is looking real good as of last night. Snacking on some blueberries still, and cukes and zukes. Tied up a few of the tomato plants. Some of the onions from seed are amazing, and we have gotten garlic bulbs from spring planted garlic cloves. I should take a picture of the savoy cabbage because it is almost blue it is such a deep green, and BIG. All of the corn is planted in three sisters now.

I won't bother with all the stuff that hasn't been done! There is always that.