May 23rd

On this Memorial Day and weekend

we honor military personnel who 

died in service to our country.

Remember...

our flag doesn't fly because 

the wind moves it,

it flies with the last breath

of those who died to

protect it.

"Greater love hath no man than this,

that one would lay their 

life down for another"

John 15:13

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🐔

The weather is starting to get hotter.

I knew that the "Goldilocks" days of

spring wouldn't last, but I still wasn't 

prepared for a veritable furnace when 

I stepped out of the back door onto the patio!

The chicken girls don't seem to mind 

the warmer weather at all.

They were clucking to get out of the coop

before I could even open the back door.

I unlocked the coop door and they 

did a bump and rush

to get out as fast as possible.

I was trying to walk toward the 

backyard and they were coming the 

opposite way.

I felt like a desperate salmon

during mating season!

And all the while they were clucking

so loud they woulda drowned

out the Boston Pops during

The Star Spangled Banner!

That's Nugget giving me the stink eye

because I didn't have a handful of

freeze dried worms.

Hazel and Pepper doing the same thing.

Jeez girls,

gimme a break.

It's always about them,

they never think of me.

Lucy was following us but

she's been a bit skittish lately so

she stayed behind me.

Ethel is in the coop.

Again.

She's broody, so we have to physically

take her out of the laying box.

She'll fluff her black feathers

and cluck, trying to hatch the

unfertilized eggs.

Bless her little chicken heart.

We get the eggs out several times a day

so there's never anything

under her for very long.

It's like she chronically constipated

and sitting on the only

toilet in the house.

There are several laying boxes 

in the coop, but they all wanna use the

same cockadoodie one!

This is part of the reason for the

hen's crazed moves this morning.

There are mayflies everywhere!

This one was on the patio umbrella.

They had a literal feast gobbling them up.

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The cucumber plant is doing good.

The CEO calls it the "pickle" plant.

The eggplants are still blooming.

This is a one day harvest.

In the little green leaf dish 

with a mirliton is some blueberries.

More tomatoes, broccoli

and celery spears.

Figured I'd get creative

and make a still life.

Ha!

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Our sunflowers are starting to bloom.

Love them.

They look like a painting, they are beautiful.

Marigolds in a pot on the patio table.

Brussels sprouts.

An embarrassed carrot. 

(Or maybe he's gotta pee really bad?)

The CEO planted the carrots in 

a large container where they 

couldn't grow downward into the soil,

so they grew the best they could.

We thought the container would be deep enough.

Lesson learned and next time

they'll go into one of the 

veggie beds.

This guy looked so sad.

(But we ate him anyway)

😆

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For all of our friends,

relatives and acquaintances

who have passed on

and we'll never forget.

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🌜

Well it's getting late 

and 

I'm in the middle

of another book,

so 

I'll go relax and finish reading.

😀