It was with some relief that I woke up yesterday to find that it was finally raining, which meant a wonderful break from watering the gardens and also a day for working quietly indoors rather than running up and down garden rows. There is still plenty of indoor seeding and transplanting to do, in fact, [...]
Archive > May 2009
The new “mower”
With the myriad of dandelions going to seed around (and in) the garden and with the ride-on mower and tractor out of commission, Joël was eager to convince us that we needed to purchase a scythe. Although still in hot debate (be it scythe like knife or scythe like sieve – if you say it [...]
Ode to chickens
I am very sad to report that a fisher (we presume, given the carnage) made a sizeable dent in the flock of chicks. Of the 46, a stressed out 7 seem to have made it by hiding behind the cardboard insert. I guess the industry term for that is a really high mortality rate, right? [...]
“A blacksmith courted me”
You know, Joël should be writing this entry, but his to do list is already never ending and I fear even his mountain of curly hair couldn’t help contain any more items or ideas that overflow from that head of his. Soooo, I thought I’d mention that after years of desperately wanting to be a [...]
Surrounded by chicks
The meat birds, the layers and a few ducks (for good measure) arrived Wednesday – with a slight surprise, they were all day old chicks. Joel knew this, the rest of us hadn’t registered the information it seems. We scrambled to accomodate them in the coop – luckily we had Aaron, Nico, Kamé and Philippe [...]
Tree abuzz
For a few days every spring the big willow on the lawn is filled with bees collecting pollen, and you can hear the buzz from a couple of hundred feet away. It’s a very encouraging sound: it means that they are busy making food for the brood. The willow blossoms smell heavenly!
