We took David to the airport on Tuesday. It was sad like it usually is to say goodbye. But also happy that Craig gets his bedroom back and happy that I could move all Craig's things out of my bathroom and get my bathroom back. Now I don't have to wear a housecoat in the house anymore...except for when the Schwan's man comes way too early in the morning. Don't have to try to keep Liam quiet in the morning, never an easy task. Don't have to worry about getting the next days clothes out of the closet in the room David slept in...then having to sneak in there and search for them quiet as a church mouse. Yep....life is back to normal and that is good. But it is sad to think that it will probably be another 3-5 years before we see him again. I hope not, but he comes from Australia so it is quite a venture and expense.
Liam gave him the sweetest little hug and kiss at the airport when we said goodbye. We came home and Craig went into his room to take a nap before work and Liam was slightly confused but then said "oh daddy, it is so sweet that you can sleep in your room again".
This is what I overheard yesterday before dinner.....
"Liam, quit hitting me"
"It's not me daddy. it's boo bankie"
"Well, if boo bankie hits me again Liam is getting a spanking"
To my knowledge boo bankie behaved himself the rest of the night.
Liam gave him the sweetest little hug and kiss at the airport when we said goodbye. We came home and Craig went into his room to take a nap before work and Liam was slightly confused but then said "oh daddy, it is so sweet that you can sleep in your room again".
This is what I overheard yesterday before dinner.....
"Liam, quit hitting me"
"It's not me daddy. it's boo bankie"
"Well, if boo bankie hits me again Liam is getting a spanking"
To my knowledge boo bankie behaved himself the rest of the night.
FINALLY!!!!!! After two plantings of the heirloom green beans and only having a total of 8 or 9 come up from that I went back to my old standby seeds....within days of seeding them I had this! I will just stock up on them and store them in the freezer I guess. I was really hoping to be able to grow heirlooms and save my seeds each year. To the right is the tomato plants...they are doing fabulous! Sadly these too are hybrids from the store. As you might remember the heirlooms I planted, Opalka, didn't grow after their first set of leaves. Totally stopped growing! The bushy little plants on the bottom of the picture are marigolds from last years plants...I am waiting to make sure they are going to put out blooms before I transplant them to the front yard. I am going to plant lettuces and chard in the empty space to the left of the beans.
The tires in the back are sunflowers and squash....as you can see with the sunflowers there are three different heights. Liam and I planted them all on the same day...so I couldn't figured out why they were growing this way...then a few evenings ago I happened to look out as the sun was getting lower in the sky and saw a perfect area of shading on the fence....the tallest is in the sun for the longest amount of time.
In this bed are heirloom dry beans which are doing really well, cauliflower and cantaloupe. All seem to be very happy.
In this bed are heirloom dry beans which are doing really well, cauliflower and cantaloupe. All seem to be very happy.
Here are the two babies we have. Craig put up some fencing along the chain link that keeps them from going through so they are able to be outside and do chicken type things all day. At dusk I bring them back into the house and they spend the night in, and out, of a box in the laundry room. I don't know how many lives a chicken has, but the smaller of the two has used up about 5 of them so far.
My sister had to help her hatch out and she spent the first few days with a bum leg, she didn't have a heat lamp for the first few days so was never alert enough to eat much, nearly froze to death one night and had a raspy cough and wheeze the next morning, spent that day on a car trip to Bonneville dam because she had to be kept as warm as I could keep her. I held her against me wrapped up in a rag almost the whole time! I think my mother in law thinks I am crazy! Then I read to give them a little bit of sugar water and then some scrambled eggs...she choked on the eggs and David and I had to use tweezers to get it out of her throat....I was shocked she was alive the next morning! Finally got that heat lamp and all was well until Monday....Liam had been out on the patio with them (I had started letting them out there for a couple hours at a time) all of a sudden he comes running past me with a limp little chick in his hands heading toward the kitchen garbage can...."I gotta' throw it away...gotta' throw it away". I have no idea what happened but after a time she came around and though she favored her impy leg for a day she is now right as rain. My bleeding heart took a huge beating and I know they had been in it the last time I checked on them. Poor Liam. He was so remorseful. I don't know what he was trying to do except maybe get them out of the bush so a friend could see them...but he apologized over and over and I can't condemn him...bless his three year old heart. He is so tender and compassionate I know that he probably has no idea what happened or how. But he is not allowed with them alone anymore. They are just too fragile. It was really cute the two evenings they spent time on the patio. When it got dusk there would be two little heads peering in the sliding glass door....too cute! Bocky used to do that also:) Or knock on the dog door to come in:) They are a funny creature.
My sister had to help her hatch out and she spent the first few days with a bum leg, she didn't have a heat lamp for the first few days so was never alert enough to eat much, nearly froze to death one night and had a raspy cough and wheeze the next morning, spent that day on a car trip to Bonneville dam because she had to be kept as warm as I could keep her. I held her against me wrapped up in a rag almost the whole time! I think my mother in law thinks I am crazy! Then I read to give them a little bit of sugar water and then some scrambled eggs...she choked on the eggs and David and I had to use tweezers to get it out of her throat....I was shocked she was alive the next morning! Finally got that heat lamp and all was well until Monday....Liam had been out on the patio with them (I had started letting them out there for a couple hours at a time) all of a sudden he comes running past me with a limp little chick in his hands heading toward the kitchen garbage can...."I gotta' throw it away...gotta' throw it away". I have no idea what happened but after a time she came around and though she favored her impy leg for a day she is now right as rain. My bleeding heart took a huge beating and I know they had been in it the last time I checked on them. Poor Liam. He was so remorseful. I don't know what he was trying to do except maybe get them out of the bush so a friend could see them...but he apologized over and over and I can't condemn him...bless his three year old heart. He is so tender and compassionate I know that he probably has no idea what happened or how. But he is not allowed with them alone anymore. They are just too fragile. It was really cute the two evenings they spent time on the patio. When it got dusk there would be two little heads peering in the sliding glass door....too cute! Bocky used to do that also:) Or knock on the dog door to come in:) They are a funny creature.
Here is the chickens set up. There is one more panel on the top. I am looking at it and them and thinking that this isn't going to be enough room for them as adults during the summer months when they would need to be confined. But with that panel down there will be another six feet and I think that three hens could call that home. And the coop is big enough for about four hens.
That is my Braeburn apple tree in the background....it is loaded and unlike my Honeycrisp they are not growing in tight clumps that I have to break up. I had to take 20 apples off the Honeycrisp yesterday to open it up for the ones remaining and give them a chance to grow...that was sad.
So that is what has been happening around these parts........its heating up again outside...wish me luck!!!
That is my Braeburn apple tree in the background....it is loaded and unlike my Honeycrisp they are not growing in tight clumps that I have to break up. I had to take 20 apples off the Honeycrisp yesterday to open it up for the ones remaining and give them a chance to grow...that was sad.
So that is what has been happening around these parts........its heating up again outside...wish me luck!!!