Mushu rules!
Mushu the guard cat!🐈⬛❤️
I am in Venezia! 🇮🇹 ❤️🇮🇹❤️
Just arrived and I tell you, Venice is wonderland. Beautiful, old quiet and water water everywhere. We'll be here for a few days. Can't wait to explore.
Here we are in a water taxi- because how else would you get around? Looking forward to walking to a special market in a while- I believe it's a food market. Photos to come!!
2021 was a REALLY GOOD YEAR at the Neighborhood Farmlet! My gardening partner Walt photographed EVERYTHING that summer and sent me this beautiful video that brings back such great memories! Thank you Walt, you made the Farmlet SING last summer and we can't wait for you to come back! 💚💚
Wasn't the snow just gorgeous today?! I shot a video of the Farmlet in the Snow from my kitchen window 💚 so cozy!
If you listen closely you can hear the snowflakes falling❄️💚
A short video of the baby chicks experiencing their first rainy day in their new home! They are now out with the older chickens but still separated for another month at least. They are 2 1/2 months old now.
Sadly we lost 2 to hawk kills. A problem I have never had to deal with until this year. The hawks were relentless! Couldn't figure out what killed the first one, thought it was perhaps a dog, until I caught it at it the 2nd time! After the first one was killed I started putting an array of tools over the top of the open cage that I put in the yard for them for sunny days. I was aware that birds could strike, just had never had it happen here. The hawks would always wait until I was in the house or around the front to strike. The second time I ran out of the house to find the hawk on its side, wing splayed, trying to pull a chick out of the side fence openings. I rushed it and it flew away. That chick saved! That's when I realized it killed the first one. So I made an chicken wire top to use, instead of the tools, that nothing could get in. But the hawk waited till I went around front for just a minute and when I came back, only gone a minute, it was trying to pull the chicken out through the side. It killed that one too but did not get it's prize. Damn hawks! And yes, I know that they are just doing what is natural for them but I hate that they kill me chickens anyway.
And I have hopefully foiled their plan and my chickens are now protected. I have their temporary coop and run covered with bird netting. And luckily there is some tree cover as well. This has never been a problem with the larger chickens due, I think, to the tree cover plus the several covered hide spaces and the 2 sheds in the chicken yard that supply cover for them. Also the girls are quick to hide at the first sign or sound of danger from above.
The new girls will start laying eggs in early July so we'll have a few more eggs in the farm stand 😁 🥚 💚
Yesterday while out in the garden I happened to catch this moth as she very obviously had just emerged from her chrysalis and was drying her wings on the outside wall of the greenhouse. I took a short video, she is so beautiful. Anyone know what kind of moth?
The baby chicks had their first day in the sun and grass! Took them a little while to adjust but soon they were munching grass and exercising their little wings. They even had a visitor. No, no Tank, don't scare the baby chickens!!
