Short Week

Not really, it had seven days like all the other weeks do. This week we just didn't take the camera along with us as much.
The big mention this week is the little birds. We managed to keep 32 of the 36 alive to the point of release. They are out and milling around the coop, chasing bugs and scratching like chickens do. The rogue baby ducks that wandered off have decided to stay with the chicks, so neighbor involvement is back to zero when it comes to raising them.

The Dudley twins have learned to leave the little birds alone, and even cut out the bigger birds for play when they try to hide among the littles. After a long day of chasing guineas, there's nothing like taking a nap in the shade of fresh washed laundry.

We got to use the yard rake again this week and got enough clippings to do our first mulching. We did the sweet potatoes and tomatoes this week, and look forward to an entire garden finished before long. We bought 100 tomato plants over the past couple of weeks, and now that the freeze drama is behind us, we went ahead and got them in the ground. Weather is calling for a solid week of soaking rain, so we planted all 100, plus the ones we started from seeds. We also started collards, kale and egg plant we got in before the rain. We added an extra row of purple bush beans and sweet corn. The sweet corn we planted a couple of weeks ago is already up.

After we get our garden mulched in, we move on to the barn garden. It has the big tiller, so we can keep the weeds beat down over there until we catch up on clippings.
One food related picture we managed this week is homemade pizza with our homemade, fresh from the garden to the jar pizza sauce. We are coming to the end of our supply, hence the 100 tomato plants.

We ended the week with pork chop casserole and strawberry short cakes. And a nap.
K&K