Well, well, well....

Things are turning great here on Spring Peeper Farm

It's been a strange spring.

Not particularly warm or cold.

Evenings are still cold.

And wind.

Lots and lots of wind!

I've planted almost all the seeds except the ones

that are cold sensitive.

But  the tomato plants I started in the basement

are pathetic.

Wow. I won't even post a picture of them.

Sad, sad, sad.

I hope they make it through the 

season.

The pepper plants didn't look good at the beginning, 

so even though some died,  the ones that

survived are looking good....so far.

If there is one thing that lifts my spirits on a sad day

is cut flowers.  I just need to buy a small bouquet

of cut flowers and my day is made.

Well since Covid, cut  flowers are harder to

find than sanitizer!

Today we were in Yarmouth and I found some!

I was on cloud nine.  We also

went a had a visit at Ouest-ville Perennials. 

Yikes!  Let's just say I'm broke.

But my gardens are going to be beautiful!

Alice, owner of Ouestville has  the best plants.

Very hardy. They never die! 

What more can a gardener ask for!

I also  stopped and picked up our tub of worms.

Waste-check had worms for vermiculture for us.

It's for where I work. We are going to let

the wormies eat our compost and make poop.

Isn't nature grand.

Mr. and Mrs Duckworth finally had ducklings!!

She showed up last week with (what we think is)

13 ducklings!!

That's quite the brood.   They are so cute.

Well things can't always go well.

Dave had started my cold cellar.

He just wanted to move the water pump a few feet so

I could have more room.

I won't go into details (because I don't know the details)

but we had to dig up the well, which we had

no clue where it was, and put a pump in the

well.  Chaching! Now we're broke.

It was going to happen eventually. It was just a matter

of time.  At least it happened now and not

in the winter when the ground is frozen.

So now, hopefully we won't be bothered with the pump 

or well for 20+ years.

But at least we know where our well is now.

About 2 feet from the herb garden. Phew.

That was close.

Have a Blessed Day.

Lisa

My new hobby.

I've done it! I've finally done it! I've let the chickens loose.

So now I have a new hobby...chicken watching!

I love watching them. They look so happy now.

They were just a scratching and pecking and doing chicken things.

So I took so many pictures of them, you'd think I'm a chicken photographer.

Ahhh....yesssss....my new hobby. It could become addictive.

The only problem was that at 9pm I still had a straggler. So I had to go on chicken round up.

Even the ducks didn't seem to perturbed.

Have a Blessed Evening

Lisa

Ducks, clotheslines and Victoria Day weekend.

The following picture is now off limits for me. I have been told by my hubby to not use it for awhile. Oh I miss it. But it falls off it's track at the other end and when that happens Dave has to climb on top of the barn and then put a ladder on the roof of the barn to reach the wheel and the clothes that have gotten stuck up there. Not the most ideal situation. I don't really want my hubby breaking his neck for a few clothes.

Well Otis went to the big pasture up the road last week. Dave actually walked him there. A friend of ours actually stopped and said, "Aren't you supposed to walk your dog? Not your cow?" Dave said, "I don't have a dog, so the calf will do."

Otis actually found a friend in the pasture. That night we went to visit him and he actually made friends with a larger Holstein in the pasture. It was kinda cute, since all the rest of the cattle were what I call meat cattle and a few Jerseys. But there was only one other Holstein in the bunch and they became friends. I wonder if cattle are prejudice? Ha ha.

Pretty soon people are going to start calling me the crazy cat lady. We have a new addition to our cat family. It's not by choice. She kinda adopted us. This pretty stray has been eating the barn cat's cat food for months now and she's decided to become a bit friendlier. Well really it's amazing what a determined 9 year old and a couple of bags of cat treats can accomplish. So that means we now have 5 cats. Ugh.

Dave went to the cattle sale a few weeks ago and sold the twins. Sniff, sniff...But we cannot keep them all. I didn't get much for them either. Bummer. 66$ for 2 twin goats. Not good.

But while Dave was there he thought that he'd surprise us with a treat. So please meet our 3 new ducks. Or as I call them, "Supper for the wild minks". One has a bum leg, but you can't get with 20 feet of them. They are really petrified of humans. Hmmmm.... I wonder if a few bags of cat treats and a determined 9 year old would work on them?

In Canada this past weekend was Victoria Day weekend. It was a gorgeous weekend. I was off work!!!YIPPEE for me! J. and I did some gardening.

Well I have so much to blog, but it's going to have to wait for another post. I am having so many problems with blogger that it's now an extreme pain to blog.

I cannot move my photos around on my post, so I have to save everything, open a new post, copy and paste the body of the post to the new post, then copy and paste the photos to the exact spot I want them in the new post. So I'm doing all my work twice. NOT FUN!!!! It's almost as bad as trying to make cheese! Which I'm trying to do again tonight. Yes, I am a sucker for punishment.

Have a blessed Evening

Lisa