Our little back yard flock is growing and doing well. Hubby put up a fence to try and keep the sassy flock to the back portion of our yard, they still get around it but are getting better. The chickens are now twelve weeks old, which means in about four to six weeks we should be getting our first eggs. …
I have been enjoying snapping pictures recently of my garden areas. Granted they are not large and always beautiful however they are mine, I have worked painstaking hours to get them where they are and I am reveling in that. I will say that there is a part of me that is finding some real healing in spending time in…
I was about to throw in the chicken raising towel yesterday! Sakes alive… the chicken debacle of 2012 was not bad enough, we decided in April we would try this whole chicken thing out again. Then in May we went away for the day and came back to one missing chicken. You would think that would have scared me off……
When my parents were here in May my mom brought me some silver ware from my great grandma. I have a vision of shadow boxes being placed over my dinning room table housing a linen background and the silverware. Being that some of this silverware is from the mid eighteen hundreds they were rather tarnished. I searched… Pinterest, where else!?! …
When we moved into our house the back yard was a mess. It had been abandoned for who knows how long! There were a few mosquito breeding zones, lots of “natural” greenery and a ton of glass (long story!). Last year I can say that I hated our back yard. I didn’t even want to be out there, it made…
I have not been really good about getting pictures of our girls up. I will say that I am not as attached to these girls as I was our ones from last summer. These girls are definitely more skiddish and are not as much of love bird as our last batch. I can’t remember if I told you that we…
A quick trip to Home Depot this morning got me some marigolds. I have some seeds for them but I also wanted the immediate color and from what I have read is that marigolds help keep mosquitoes away. I have been searching for lemon grass however I have not been able to find any so I decided to go with…
The Kulow 2013 garden is ready. Everything has been planted and just a few things are being tweaked. Three days of working my tail off has resulted in a nice looking garden. I am feeling a little worried that even with this beautiful garden that I might not even get produce. I kind of feel like this is my first…
Happy Mother’s Day! For mother’s day we played in the garden all day, a quick trip to Home Depot and a “special” lunch at Subway. Yep, that is how we roll! Yard work was on my top priorities, we have a garden to get ready and to plant. Thankfully the hubby is rather handy and helped me, he got my…
With spring time means there is weeding. My first blister of the 2013 spring/summer yard. Right in the middle of my palm, how did that happen? Well actually I know, it is from using the little hand trowel to get all the blasted dandelions out of our yard. I am convinced that those things are of the devil himself. They…