I love gardening, though this year I severely neglected my garden and it was the weediest it has ever been. None the less, I love eating food, that we've grown and nurtured ourselves. I love harvesting, storing and canning the food that we grow. I love making pumpkin pie with pumpkins that we grew in our own garden. Today, we dug up the rest of the potatoes, carrots and beets (the last of the garden). YUMMY!!
Fall is also when the new chicks start laying their first eggs. Their first eggs are so darn cute!! They are about half the size of a normal egg. I think it's mother nature's way of breaking them in gently. Why didn't she do that with people? The kids are always so excited when they find the first tiny eggs! Then it's time to keep the chickens penned up for a little while, so they learn to lay in their nesting boxes instead of all over the yard (it can become a year round easter egg hunt).
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| The egg in the middle is our old hen's egg. The eggs on either side are the new chickens first eggs. |
While we finished up the garden, Jade was out working with Breeze (our 5 month old filly). The kids have spent hours with this little foal and it shows. She is so gentle. They can climb all over and under her. Jade trailer trained her last week and started putting a saddle on her. This week Jade got up on Breeze bareback and rode her around. Today, she put her little siblings on Breeze and took them for a ride. Jade tried getting Breeze to trot with her three year old brother on board and that didn't go so well. She bucked him off. Gunner was a little startled but he got back up again.
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| Tycee with 5 month old Breeze |
Anyways, it was a beautiful fall day. Dad is very busy combining (thank heavens for the blessing of a perfect fall so far - as the summer was terrible farming weather). Hopefully this weather will hold for a few more weeks and we'll get harvest done.
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