Hello again! This Thursday I’m going to give you another update. Surprisingly a lot has happened since I last updated you, a little over a week ago. This last week has been fairly hot, and the last few days have been smoky. Yesterday it rained quite a bit where I live. We have worked on the chicken (duck) tractor a little but not to much because of the heat. We are almost done with it though.
Last week I started with the garden so today I’ll start with the animals. There is a little bit of bad news regarding the chickens. Our last Rhode Island Red chicken has died. We aren’t exactly sure why it died but we think it might have gotten into the fly poisoning. On a much happier note one of the new chickens laid an egg. I was thinking that nothing really happened to the goats but then I remembered that they knocked down one of the walls on there shed. A few weeks ago they put a hole in it and one day while I was doing chores I saw the wall laying in the dirt. The kittens that were born earlier this year have taken to playing on our front porch. Some days I go out and read while they play. It’s pretty entertaining to watch them fight. Other then that nothing else has happened with the animals.
There isn’t much to say on the garden. We did end up getting a bunch of cucumbers this past week. This weekend my sister and my dad are making pickles. When they went to get the pickles some of them froze in the fridge, those ones are going to the chickens but they still had plenty to pickle. I am currently at our camper but when I get back I’m going to check the aronia berry bushes. I think they should be ripe. I just checked the apples yesterday and they aren’t quite ready yet.
I think I have told you everything that has went on the last week but I’ll have another post up on Monday.
