SPRING IS FINALLY HERE! I HOPE...

Hey ya'll...Deliverance here.

I can not believe how long winter has been this year. It is the third of May and usually by now I have my garden in and spending most of my time fighting back the weeds (and not winning!), but this year I have tomato starts in the garage to be hardened off so I might be able to plant this coming weekend. Last weekend Frederick managed to get the garden tilled up between rain and snow storms. God love him! He is such a great help around here. We normally would have it tilled for a couple of weeks and watering about every other day to get the weeds started so he could till them under again and that helps to keep them down. This year I don't know how much this is going to help, I think I'm more worried about the last frost, which I hope has past. Today is beautiful...80 degrees...sunshine...blue skies...and those spring breezes! Just fantastic weather. So I guess that tomorrow will snow about 6 inches and I will have to find my overcoat again! But enough of that....

Life on the farm is going along at its normal pace for the most part. I have moved the toddler- chicks out to the "nursery" so they can start getting use to seeing those big hens and big roosters. They spend alot of time in their coop not real sure about the other critters on the other side of that fence. I would imagine that in a couple of more weeks those other critters won't seem so big anymore and they will start getting a bit braver.

I took Barney, Goober, and Billy Bob out to the fresh tilled garden for a field trip. They have had a blast all day long. This is the first time they feet have been dirty and they were none too happy at first. I have very spoiled chicks around here. But they warmed up to the idea and started to act like chickens, it is so hard to see your children grow up, and chickens do it fast! They too are not sure about those other critters but they seem less worried about them. Of course these chicks have been around Jake the dog and Zipper the cat so another chicken is really no big deal and besides Mom would not let anything happen to us! Right? I really don't know what I am going to do with the trio. Goober and Billy Bob could probably be put in with the rest of the flock once they get some size on them, but Barney would not fair so well with that bum leg. I called Doc last week and ask him if he ever set a chicken's leg before or maybe it would be better to amputate, but he never called me back. So I figure that he is still laughing at me or the question put him in the ground. Doc has been a Godsend around here but the chicken question may have put him over the edge. I mean there is only so much a Doc can do right? Well, we keep him on his toes with this band of misfits we have around here.

Well, I had better get my butt in gear and get some dinner on before the boss gets home. That soup that Willful made sure looked good. I made some pork broth last week so maybe I will use that and make a nice homemade soup and fresh bread. Willful you have saved me again with your great ideas. That is it for now. Ya'll have a great evening and I'll be back soon.

Deliverance