Would you like flies with that?

Woke up and let the chickies and MB2 and baybays out this AM.  It was very foggy.  Then spent enough time in the garden to weed 1/2 of a row before heading out to the winery.

Alas, my bag baybays have all flown the nest.  Jim noticed one sitting on a brick by the bag and thought it had fallen out.  We left it alone.  I came back later and looked in the bag and the only thing left was the two dud eggs and the nest.  How quickly they grow.  I saved the nest cause it was so cute.

baybays go byebyes

but now I can use the oyster shell in the bag again.

Then I went to Silver Coast Winery for some wine.  Unfortunately, I misread the email and the slated stuff is not due for pickup until June.  So I just bought a case of 1/2 red and 1/2 white.  bummer (kidding).

When I got back home, I hit the garden again.  The flies and gnats were TERRIBLE.  Even with Off on they bit.  There is one that looks exactly like a house fly but bites like a horse fly.  I am still itching.  But I did get the beets weeded and thinned and two rows of onions weeded.  That leaves three rows of greens, the pole beans, wax beans, cucumbers and the herb garden.  Just as I finished, a thunder storm came up.  After an hour it was gone and it was like a sauna.  Good for the skin, bad for the asthma.  I checked my other garden and the tomatoes look really sad as do the peppers, and the potatoes never came up at all.  Only the watermelons look good.  I attached my fertilizer injector to this garden and will attempt to fertilize tomorrow.  I think the soil is just too poor.  I need to manure it in the future.  So I don't know if I will get any maters from this area this year.  I still have volunteers from last year that I can make sauce with.  Also, the pecan tree looked pitiful.  A cut worm had been after it, and something caused all of the original leaves to turn brown, but new leaves are putting out.  I don't know if it will survive either.

Yesterday, I noticed that one of those worms that descend on a thread (not a bag worm, but looks similar) had attached itself to the underside of the brooder house door and made itself into a cocoon.

any ideas Sister Sister?

I wonder what will come out?

Haven't had much time for the cockers today, but I can hear the baybays all the way in the garden.  Peep Peep Peep.  MB2 has got to be bonkers.  I noticed that she was pacing the fence 1/2 hour ago.  I think she wants to get out and forage again.  Maybe she will think twice before brooding again.

It started raining again so I think I will go enjoy the porch.

bak bak