Two more days of work on the house. We are just about ready to start painting the upstairs rooms with primer.
Heather is starting to plant seeds in little pots for her vegetable garden and she purchased artichoke, asparagus, tomato, and sweet pea plants at the nursery the other day. Those are now being sheltered in a cute little "green house" structure made of tubing and a plastic cover. Temps at night are in the low 30's and we have had two frosts since I got here so it's still too early to put them in the ground.
The chickens and turkeys are allowed to come out their enclosure and roam the property so they can find greens to eat (grass and weeds) and lots of little bugs. Their enclosure is under the pine trees so there is not much growing in there. Yesterday one of the turkeys disappeared for a few hours and Heather's thought was that she had found a little nook in one of the brush piles to nest in. Sure enough when Mike got home from work he searched the woods and found a nest with 7 eggs in it! The turkey eggs are just a little bigger than chicken eggs but Mike says the shells are much harder. So in addition to the chicken eggs, and there are lots of those, they will now have turkey eggs to eat and sell.
The neighbor across the road wants to get rid of his rooster, Roo, and Mike and Heather are going to take him. Hopefully, there will be a new clutch of chicks born this spring and I will get to be here for that.
A quick walk across the road to check on the sheep. There are still no new lambs - disappointment : (
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