Catching Up

It seems I can either write or I can "do", but I have trouble balancing the two.  This past week was spring break, and I spent my week off from work, well, uh, working.  But a week out of the kitchen and on the farm was a welcome change of pace anyway, if not exactly restful.  I accomplished quite a bit.  Here's my week off...in pictures.

My main project this week was to build a yard for my three remaining khaki campbell ducks.  Theys seem to like their new digs.  They have a place to swim a bit (though not strictly necessary for this breed) and the top of the yard is netted to keep out hawks.

The barred rock pullets are growing fast.  We lost one this week when the lid blew off the brooder in a bad storm one night, and they all got wet.  I have decided that I probably still have too many and will be selling some in a few weeks.

The garden is growing well and most everything except the really warm  weather crops are in the ground.  The lettuce is ready for us to start harvesting (above). In the foreground of the second photo, potatoes have poked up above ground.  Several weeks ago, my husband outfitted all the beds with hoops, making it easier to put on frost protection or bird netting.

Goats have returned to Pleasant Places!  These three girls, acquired this weekend,  will be kept for brush control...and because I like goats.  They are unregistered, but they seem to be mostly Nigerian Dwarf, which is what we used to have several years ago.  We are calling the dam "Bea"  because my mom asked if I was going to milk her, and I said that if milk went any higher she was "Plan B"...Bea.  It seems to fit.  The daughters are Hermione and Luna. 

Pico is becoming an outstanding farm guardian.  Here he is on patrol around the barn.  The goats don't know what to make of him, and are unnerved that he hangs out near them, but he's just doing his job.