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It seems there is always so much to do... Chickens:  A few months ago, a cousin/friend gave us 3 leghorn chicks. The dog killed one and we were left with two. I recently put them in with the bigger chickens. It seems like though we only have 9 chickens, we have 3 small flocks: the tetra tint flock (3), the brown chicken flock (3 americaunas and 1 buff orpington) and then the leghorns (2). My younger son says the buff is multiracial, because she is accepted by the americaunas and the tetras. Funny how we observe our social status situations upon the chickens we have. Odd. :) Since the chicken family grew, Charlie made two new laying boxes from scrap wood of old pallets.     The leghorn chicks are getting bigger and I hope will be laying soon...but, they will have several weeks before this happens.   These chicks are quite confused about the night time routine of their new home. They do not understand that they are supposed to be in the coop at night....

What does a homeschooling mommy do when the child is away and the hubby is at work?!?!?  :) I made a birdbath.  And, then I dropped it. Then I spent the next 2+ hours cleaning up shards from all over the floor of 6 rooms of my house where it all splattered to...  :/ I built a raised bed from wood scraps. The compost was turned to add to the bottom. The chicken coop was swept for nitrogen fodder. Soil was added to the top. Six heirloom variety tomato cuttings that had rooted were planted. Trellises were added.     I played with the dog and she enjoyed the water hose in the heat quite a bit. :) I gathered cucumbers and one zucchini from the gardens.  I canned 6 jars of garlic pickes and 2 pints of dilly beans. Goldfish and algae eaters were added to the rainbarrels.      I had to move the broody chicken to be able to collect the eggs.    All the plants were checked for deer damage. She ate most...

bambi first ate every single blooming tomato i had - on every dang tomato plant... now bambi is eating all the leaves off of the sweet potato vines...do you know what is like to go to bed and leave just watered long lush vines full of beautiful green foliage...and to get up in the morning to have long vines with leaf stalks running down the vine, yet the vine is bare... naked vines will not help to make for good potato growth. i think i need a doe tag...when does deer season start?? bambi is no longer cute, nor my friend...

About three months ago, when we were fully engulfed in learning and trying to teach my son many of the things he was working on for advancement or merit badges in Scouts...reading and explaining was just not getting the job done for my youngest child. He is a hands-on learner...So, I set out to do the things with him for better overall impression and retention of skills. We determined to build a make-shift shed. He got to cut and measure and hammer and nail and drill and such. It took about a month to look like anything that would hold anything. A greenhouse roof was applied. I had a place to hold the new planting items for the small garden we made. The new neighbor's dog had also learned in this time frame to scale the fence next door and escape. He likes my yard more than hers apparently. He dug up my new plants. He took off with pieces of my mulch. He takes my pots off the front porch. Lately he has ate my best pair of flip flops and ran off with one of my garden glov...