Days 61 and 62

Friday was a quiet day. After spending the morning shopping, Heather and I were kind of burned out and took it easy for the rest of the day.  But Saturday we got back to work.


Heather went to a tree and plant sale not far from here and came home with a copper beach and a Norway purple maple.  More trees to plant!  We have four manuka trees also waiting to be put in the ground but they are growing nicely and even starting to flower.

We had planted seven pumpkin plants on the east side of the garden but not in the garden enclosure.  The chickens also use this area to dig holes to take dust baths and they had dug up all but three of the pumpkin plants.  So we dug up those last three and transplanted them into the garden enclosure.

We dug a flower bed at the back of the garden enclosure and planted the flowers that Nicky had given to Heather.  The flowers will stay there until Heather and Mike are ready to landscape the yard. 

Desdemona and Honky are the two turkeys that are sitting on the huge clutch of 18 eggs.  In the morning Heather found an empty egg shell next to Desdemona and later in the day Mike found another one, which means the clutch is starting to hatch!!  At one point I saw one little golden turkey baby sitting next to Desdemona, and Heather said she had seen two golden ones and a brown one.  Heather and I got busy and put screening on the front of the turkey hutch so we'll have a place to contain them when they have all hatched.

In the evening Mike's parents, Dave and Rita, and his god-parents, Alf and Margaret, came over to see the progress on the house and for dinner.  Mike fired up the barbeque and we had a tasty dinner of lamb chops, sausages, asparagus, mushrooms, Margaret's carrot salad and Mike's home-made bread.  Rita made a lemon cheesecake and there was not one crumb of it left after most of us had seconds on dessert!  A truly delicious meal with wonderful company.