Gardens and chickens

This post is #4 of 4 in the catchup posts.  Busy days around here.  Go back to look at the other posts, too.

A friend asked for more pictures of the chicken coop.  I'm sorry, but she would be very disappointed, because it's very ugly.  We have a very old shed, that we borrowed one room from, and added a fenced run on, and that was 20 years ago.  It has housed many chickens over the years, and had fallen to pieces, a bit.  Our son begged for chickens for two years, so we finally patched it up, and it has future egg-layers in it, once again.  Instead of coop, I offer pics of chicks.  We're working on a chicken tractor, so they can have access to greenery, instead of us carting it all to them.

Trying to tame the chickens...

B. was ecstatic to discover that he had a rooster.  They were supposedly all pullets!

David has really kept up with the weeds this year.

His peas are in bloom, although they're snow peas-- not what he actually wanted...

This one is more my garden-- black plastic, and milk jug warm-caps.  Lots of squash, cukes, tomatoes and peppers in there.

The view looking up into the cherry tree which has never borne fruit.  It's a miracle!  What a difference a "pollination partner" makes!

Having fun

So sweet, no need to add sugar!  Not too many, though.  I've never gotten many.  Need to learn some things.

"I love mud boots, 'cuz I can go out to the garden with Mom at a moment's notice!"

"I love 'em, too!"  Actually, it's just this year that the girls can even walk in them.  Apparently, it's a challenge until you figure out how.  Little Boy is just starting to get interested.  He hates to wear any shoes, ever, though.

Some radishes, and our experimental potatoes.  Only just that we wanted "new" potatoes, and didn't know when to harvest them.  Plants are just starting to bloom, and I'd say we went a bit past "new."  Tasted amazing, though, with a subtle undercurrent of flavor I didn't recognize. 

This is my favorite rosebush, planted when I graduated from nursing school ten years ago.

I don't remember the name, but it's an antique style, very fragrant cabbage rose, I believe.