My new little patch of tulips is a delight. Its such a bit of bright random colour!
They will be over soon and other blossoms and spring flowers will take my attention, but for now, they are the prettiest things out there!
Got lots of things going on – put a BBQ together for Margies friend Chris this morning. Did some shopping and running about followed by a lap of the river track.
Got most things prepared for the twilight market which is on tomorrow night. I have my fingers crossed to sell some soap!
I’ve also been working hard at getting ready for an event on Sunday – but I will tell you about that on Saturday haha. Its consuming my mind and time a bit.
We got down to the coop tonight at dusk and finally did some wing clipping. Goodness… there was some flapping and squawking and general carrying on!! I’ve been wanting to do this for ages as I am sick of chasing chooks from where they are not supposed to be. I love them but I don’t want them digging up all my new plants and gardens.
I am also wrapping up the 10 day photo challenge that has now entered its 26th day!! 😀 Nothing new there… lucky my friend who does the scoring on his especially developed spreadsheets and I are not impatient. We just go with it.
We had 25 people join in – a few new faces this time too which was nice. Its all been tallied up, winners announced, extra stats being shared etc.
Its a nice little community and the photos that come in daily for it are so amazing.
We’ll take a break for a few months before thinking about setting up a new challenge. I think that one was the 11th one!
Things in the hothouse are going well… cucumber, zucchini, cos lettuce and one little marigold are all up
The snow peas and sweet peas in the outside gardens have also started popping up too!
And those big old plum trees have baby plums again!
Yum!
Thats it from me tonight!
Hope your week is going along well and you have some fantastic things planned for the weekend!
Cheers!
Your tulips are gorgeous! I love the colors! Do you clip both wings on the chicken or just one? One of my favorite homesteading channels on Youtube recommends just clipping one wing of the chicken. Evidently if you clip both, the chicken can adjust and potentially be able to start to fly again even with both clipped. But if you clip just one, they are always off balance and cannot fly.
Thank-you Mandy! I am really enjoying those tulips! So glad I spotted the bags of bulbs on sale at a fete a few months back!
We clipped one wing. Jeff wasn’t sure but I thought- like you said above – it unbalances them. And guess what?? No chooks on the wrong side of the fences today!! Yay!! Thank-you for the information!!! Hope you are having an awesome weekend!
Lisa, I too love your tulips. The short ones are especially nice.
Sounds like you have a lot going on.
Take care. xxoo
Aren’t the short tulips cute? Its such a fabulous variety. I really had no idea what I was going to get when I got that bag of bulbs! Very pleased!
Yes – running about crazy lately! Does it ever calm down here?? haha. xx