Chicken Tales

I really enjoy watching our chickens peck around the yard, I'll admit that it is sometimes annoying when they follow you around constantly, and the endless amounts of poo everywhere, but we are lucky that there are no critters around that hunt them.
A month or so ago they seemed to slack off of laying their eggs, around when we brought in 8 new year old hens. Well last week we decided to cut the suckers that grew on the stumps in an area behind the coup....this is what we found, 2 large nests of about 15-17 eggs each of varing degrees of freshness....not sure if it was the new to us ones or the old ones, it was kind of nice to find their hiding place and good to know that they were laying...somewhere. We've also caught them laying eggs on the new hay in the hay barn.
And my last tale....our son Ethan has a summer job working with a road crew that takes him around the province so he is gone for a few weeks at a time. We were busy Sunday so he and his friends went grocery shopping for his food for the next couple of weeks, I guess they were in such a hurry when they got home they just left the bags of groceries in the driveway, because he was leaving in less than an hour. Yup, you guessed it the "ladies" got into the bags, and ate his bread and pecked a large hole into his cantaloupe!! Now it was not their fault.....free food!!!!

PS they do stay locked up until midmorning if I'm home, to lay in their house, if I work they are out at 8:45am. The reason why they are out is because they pick at each other something terrible....and now the feathers will not grow back on their butts....trying to prevent the newer ones from being bald butt chickens.

A lonely little Sunflower.

While away camping the last few days, we took a walk on the beach and happened upon a lonely little Sunflower growing all by itself at the edge of the grass near the rocks. What a lucky little flower to have such a scenic view....low tide isn't very pretty though!

Standing proudly....

Happy Birthday Canada!

I know that I'm a little late...busy weekend. Thursday we finally got the tomatoes planted in the garaden, also carrots, peas and beans. We'll see if they grow this late. We don't have festivities in our town for Canada Day, in a couple of weeks we have Founders Days, a whole weekend of fun and fireworks. Max had his own party! Hope everyone had a great holiday! Enjoy your week...

Silly indulgence?

I set out thismorning to do a few things while waiting for the bank to open I thought I'd stop at Frenchys, our very well known 2nd hand store, there are several across Nova Scotia. My husband is very tolerant of my "habit" and somethings are totally useless, well not today this is what I found, I think it was ment to be....I love Eeyore, he is the color of my Emily and my Max has the same personality as Eeyore, plus his little pillow has January on it, my birth month....so it was ment to be, correct?

Of course I bought some other items, hubby a pair of Dockers pants, son a tee shirt and future Grandbaby a Beatrix Potter sleeper, plus Eeyore all for $12.15 ( including taxes, of course) oh I forgot I also picked up a tank top for myself. Over the past month I have also collected shoes, dress and a sweater and pruse to wear to a wedding tomorrow. I can not remember when the last time I bought something for myself at a store brand new. *I do buy new undies and bras*, that would be gross!!

I hope you like my little find, I was so excited I had to share....it doesn't take much to excite me!

Happy Days!

Lots and lots of Lady Slippers

This evening my husband and I took a stroll through our local campground and we found a very large patch of lady slippers, actually we found a few large patches of the very pretty flowers. It is not a very nice weekend to camp, rained all afternoon and drizzlie now, so not so surprising that only 3 sites out of 62 were occupied. We will wait for a nice sunny weekend to go over camping, just walking through though we wanted to stay. Hope your weekend is sunny!

Writers block...............

I am so ashamed that I haven't had any interest in my blog for quite some time. There doesn't seem to be anything worth while to blog about. I can hear you now....that is if someone actually is reading this....there must be something to tell. Well here goes.........
Spring came my trees bloomed, lilac, apple, cherry, snowball, quince. I mostly have lilies planted so not many flowers to tell about. I did buy some new ones but waiting for the last frost to plant. I bought a new hosta of a different color leaf, a blanket flower, bell flower, Jacob's ladder, and hubby 2 blueberry trees for Father's Day.
We bought a small plastic greenhouse, I haven't planted anything yet due to frost risk...I am so new at this garden thing! I did plant tomato seeds in the house and put them in the greenhouse each day and bring them in the house at night, they are doing quite well.
We had planned to go camping this past long weekend but, first son, now 20, suddenly moved home with girlfriend and they are living in the camper. They have been here since April 28th. They are in the process of buying and fixing up their first home. Replacing bathroom fixtures and painting, but he is trying to do as much as he can and is learning by watching and helping. We have been going to yard sales to pick up furniture, and family is parting with odds and ends to help out.
We are adjusting to fact that we are going to be Grandparents in November.....and will stand behind them and help where ever we can.
Writing this much has taken 1 1/2 hours, lots of writing, deleting and rewriting. I guess I have too much time on my hands, yea.. still not back to work.
Just a little glimpse into what has been going on in my neck of the woods.
Thanks for asking about me, you know who you are, I've sat around having my own pitty party for too long. I'mmmm back!!

Mayflowers

We took a stroll along our paths in search of Mayflowers. They have one of my favorite scents for flowers, they are also Nova Scotia's provincial flower. In places there are blankets of them all covered in leaves, amazing how they can bloom under all the leaves. The vase even matches.
Another sign of Spring!!