Garden Goodies, Spirit and Crochet time with Shetland Wool...

Hello World... so far today has been pretty stinking great.  After I had my dose of fb & coffee this morning, it was barnyard chores/garden picking time... todays garden goodies are snowpeas, summer squash, zucchini, collard greens & basil... then I made a great breakfast smoothie.  Was gonna clean house but decided to go outside sit in the shade and enjoy the beauty around me while I crocheted before it got to hot. 

 Really nice morning shade... 

The view is great too

 You can just sit in the shade and watch the garden grow...

 or watch the wild birds at the feeders...

 or watch the goats in their lil pasture...

This is when I decided to go get Spirit and let him spend some time outside of the pasture with me.

He LOVES to run circles around me...

 Hi Mom

 Then hes off to munch on yummy stuff.......

Spirit will be 3 months old on the 21st

I had bought some pretty hand dyed-hand spun 100% Shetland Wool and I have been very excited to work with it.  Its about 180 yards of yarn.  So far I've decided to make myself some fingerless gloves...

One is done.  Gonna be nice & warm this winter... 

I know, I know who wants to think about winter in the middle of summer, lol.  

Ok... I was being silly with Spirit

Thought I'd better make the yarn into a ball before it got all tangled 

 Momma duck brought her 15 ducklings over... 

they are so cute to watch

 This rooster likes to hang out with the duck family...

I'm think this one is gonna grow up into a stinkin rooster!

Gotta go, time to start on dinner :)

Beautiful Mutt Rooster...

I hatched this rooster out last spring/summer... hes turned out so beautiful, I love all this colors... I know hes got Easter Egger in him & I was thinkin BO/RIR mix or maybe OEGB? I dont know I have had so many different roosters running around here, I dont know whos matin who most of the time, lol

I Love This

My run a way Rooster & Hen...

I got these 2(and 3 other girls) last summer from a friend when I picked up Porkchop. Well within the first 2 weeks of havin them these 2 decided they were gonna run a way to the neighbors barnyard, so thats where they are livin... for now. One of these days I'm gonna catch them! lol. They've really been comin back over lately...

The are so pretty...

He looks just like my Sally Sue, only bigger

He tries to sweet talk the girls to get close enough to mate them...

He was chasin some of the girls out of the woods & he tries to fight my 2 sweet bantam roosters

Smart Rooster... Our Leghorn

Gottcha!
Hes eatin the seed out of my wild bird tray feeder. I've ran out of B.O.S.S. so I've been puttin scratch in my feeders... well the chickens found it and this is what went on today when I let them out to free range... Guess I need to keep the feeders empty for acouple days, stop using sctatch and get some more B.O.S.S.

Their eatin what he spills, lol

Then he jumps up and knocks the seed out of my hangin bird feeders... for everyone to enjoy.

Then he tried to figure out how to get into my gazebo bird feeder!

Thats it girls go find you own food!

Meet Big Red

The plan was he was goin to freezer camp when we processed our extra roosters but I just thought he was too pretty not to keep. These pics dont do him justice, hes Beautiful in person.

* 56 Chickens *
(The rooster and a hen that I got from my friend flew the coop,they are livin at my neighbors)

Well Its Official...

Charlies A Boy!

I was thinking he was looking alittle roosterish.
Caught him in the act of trying to mate today...
now I just have to listen for his 1st crow.

Big Daddys running over there to knock him off that hen, lol

Isnt he BEAUTIFUL... I just love his coloring.

Nice and shinny feathers

He was born in Sept. 09... so hes about 5 months old.

I only have him and a pullet from my Sept. 09 hatch

Charlies in this bunch somewhere, lol. 1 Week Old

At 5 weeks old

Charlie at 6 weeks and 7 weeks...