Strawberries!!!

In February, we were busy transplanting our strawberries into new soil. We should have done this last December and we had a lot of babies to transplant.

About 250 Plants

This is our old garden. We planted a couple of rows last year to see how they would do in this area. They did really well so we decided to plant the strawberries here.

About 90 More

Well...we had leftovers. This is where I usually plant the strawberries. There are still 50-100 plants in the box you can barely see in the top left of this photo. I didn't get to amend the soil and transplant them. They are doing really well anyway.

Mama Cave (continued)

Here's another pic of the other side.

Chicken Food Barrels

Here is the other side of the coop. Chicken food in the barrels and oyster shell in the tin bucket.

My time to brag...see that little brownish bench to the left? I made that because I saw one just like it in a catalog. It was easy to make. I used deck screws to hold it together. It's not going to break any time soon. I'll be making a few more of these to keep on hand for company around the fire pits.

Mama Cave

Here is the Mama Cave part of the coop.

My Inherited Bench

Bench to do my potting and other stuff on. It will mostly be potting.

New Coop!

Well, it's not really new. It was actually a storage shed we made into a coop / potting shed. I like to call my side my 'Mama Cave'. : ) We've lost a few hens and all of our roos so we're only going to keep a dozen or so instead of the 40+ we had. Downsizing is everywhere!

Front View

Back View

We do have wire over the top because of hawks. A hawk got one of them last year and it wasn't pretty. Funny thing is, we had chicken wire on top of the last one and the darned hawk pulled up a loose end and crawled in, we think. This one is tied in really well. I have the muscles to prove it!

Perches



New Nest Boxes

Yes, that's linoleum on the floor. I wanted to make it easy to clean so we went out and got remnants.

BTW, I found the setting to make more than one pic fit into a post.

I spoke too soon. I may need a better ethernet card. I replaced a blown one and didn't realize 'good price' meant 'slow moving'. I'll need GBs instead of mbps.

Anyhow, I've cleaned it and it works like a dream!

Table Napkins

In case you haven't noticed yet, I cannot publish more than one pic at a time for some reason. I've got to check my settings so please bear with me. Here's the next installment.

Did you ever get sick and tired of buying paper napkins? Do you hate to have pieces sticking to your fingers when you use paper napkins? I did. So I went to my trusty fabric stash and unearthed a bit of forgotten cotton cloth to make these.

They work really well. They clean up really well. I'm saving trees. I love being environmentally mindful. I try to use what I have before I buy. These only took a few minutes a piece to make. The hardest part was trying to figure out what size. The red and gold are 18" and the flowered ones are 15". I really don't know which size I like better. I guess I better make more of each size.

Doggie Stuff

Here's another thing I've been up to. I love my babies, which just happen to be furbabies. I decided to try to make them 'gourmet' biscuits. They looked and smelled so yummy! The girls thought so, too.

As for the recipe, I just make them up as I go. I use whole wheat flour, water, egg, some garlic powder (just a dash or two), grated carrots or other veggies, some water to bind. I roll them out on the counter in corn meal to about 1/4 inch. The cornmeal makes them look so dusty. Bake them and let them cool. I use what I have and take it from there. The girls NEVER turned them down. I've made batches now and again. I don't want to spoil them too much! Yeah, right.

Catching Up...Again

Once again, it's been a while since I've blogged. The weather has been unseasonably nice here in SC. We are enjoying being outside and getting the yard spruced up for the summer season. We get summer really early here. Like in April / May. However, the temps have been in the 80's and very close to the 90's already! Whew!

Here's a project I finished for a baby shower in March. A lovely young couple had a baby girl. This turned out very nice, if I may say so myself. ; )

Violet Brynn's Round Jacob's Ladder