Beginnings and Endings

Very productive day today.  Jim helped me cut the rest of the irrigation lines for the garden, although it is still too wet to bury them.  We fixed the second cold frame by taking the lid off.  I removed the excess straw and mulched the grapes with it.  Only one is putting out so far.  We also cut 4 lines for the tomatoes that are going between the grapes and the blueberries this year.  I can't put them in the garden for a few years cause the soil has blight.

Maters behind bars

Locked broody two out all afternoon.  She was hencensed!  Kept running around clucking and fluffing.  Mad hen disease.  The rest of the girls enjoyed scratching in the woods.  They also got into the compost pile when I took out some soil and scratched it up for me.  I put the soil into the second cold frame to prep it for something to be named later.  Maybe to harden off my Amaranth.

Walked around this PM to check tree growth.  Nice peach formation on the small peach tree.  One of my Apricots has started to leaf out, but I think the other one died.  Dang.

Peachlet

Speaking of death, a sad thing.  On our way back from walkies today, we found a dead mole.  I was going to bury it, but then I thought, if we live above ground and bury our dead below ground, maybe this poor dead mole was brought up by her people to be buried above ground, as they live below ground.    So I left it there in reverence.

Besides, it was kinda decayed around the edges.

RIP Ms Mole.

Another unusual sight this afternoon.  A swarm of termites had come up from the ground and there were about 5 dragonflies eating them on the wing.  It was just like watching sharks eating a school of fish.  I wish I had a camera capable of catching the action.

Well, the monthly auction started about an hour ago, but as Jim is not here, the chickens are not put up and there was nothing that I couldn't live without this time, I won't go.  

Think it's porch and champaign time.  (Duplin had a 40% off sale on cases yesterday for members so I came home with one case of white, one case of red and one case of champaign.)  Too bad I used the strawberries to make a pie this morning.

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