I’m writing this on my phone tonight, so it’ll look a bit different. We are currently at church, waiting for the Vesper Service to start and I thought I’d get a jump on things.
We’re moving Kinda slow on projects because of outside issues, but Sue is still making progress regardless of things that are interfering. Yesterday she put in the “tunnels” that we’ll use for composting and where we’ll first introduce the worms. It’s very difficult to see the wire in the photo, but if you look closely, you can see the at she has attached the chicken wire 
the bricks so it does, indeed form a tunnel. Today, she cut the boards that will go on top. These will provide us a walkway to get into the garden and to keep the worm area shaded and, hopefully, damp or moist enough for them.
Other things continue along. We had to send in a weed whacker for repair that was less than a year old. And took one back to Home Depot that Sue just purchase on Sunday- the motor just completely burnt up then very first time she used it!!! It’s difficult to get high quality tools anymore. So far we’ve gone through four staple guns, a couple of shovels, several bits for the drill- it’s amazing to me! We just keep track of everything. Maybe one day we’ll be able to take some of it off the farm taxes! I’m sure will share that great nugget of information with you- until then ~ as always, thanks for reading!
Today’s Weather: quite hot, I think it was around 95 today. Sue said the wind started around 9:30 this morning and was quite fierce. Still going strong tonight.
Egg report: we had 7 eggs tonight- yesterday we had 8.
It’s a holiday, so I’m making this short. We took it a bit easy today. It started off pretty exciting… when Sue went in to get some Timothy hay for the goats, this lizard cutie, poked his head out and said, “What you lookin’ at, Willis?” She said he didn’t move out of the way (I think he might have been a little cold) and Sue just tried to take a bit of hay without disturbing him. We’ve been seeing more and more lizards lately and we sure like them. They help keep the spiders and the ants under control – of which there many. 
Lining Stonehenge. Here is the Circle Garden… the lining is almost complete, we just need to add a little bit around the edges where the wire didn’t go up high enough. The bad thing is, by the time we’re done with this… it’s going to be too windy to do the following steps until maybe Sunday. Saturday might be calm enough… we have to pick up manure from Mr. Kelly before we can lay down the cardboard, so that the manure goes right on top of it. Moving manure in winds upwards of 36 mph is not a fun job! Neither is trying to work with cardboard that wants to be free to fly! We’ll just have to gauge the severity of the winds and see. We might be on hold for a few days.
Let us out! This is showing how we’ve had to resort to multiple barriers to keep the Specks in their appointed area at night. The just want to be OUT! We’re a little hesitant to allow them access to the general population because they are still so small, comparatively. They are a pretty small breed anyway (see 
Speaking of the top 10. Here’s a shot of a day in the life of the Delawares. It’s been hot, so everyone finds some shade during the afternoon. This guy is on watch. I think he might be the rooster… some of the others are peeking out from under the chickshaw. They stay like this for a long time. It’s a cool place to rest during the heat of the day, but the rooster is en garde! By about 4:30/5:00 p.m. the temps start dropping and they again are out in the grass, chasing bugs and scratching up the ground. They’ve got it pretty good. Last night, around 7:30 p.m., they were still out and about; we had to chase everybody in.
And then, there’s Roman. One of the different watering options we’ve tried lately is the bucket with the 
to him 🙂 He thinks he’s outgrown the cuddling thing; he’ll follow us around, or come over to talk to us, but don’t even think about holding him. Yet, he still tries to get into his baby tub. Actually, he does get into his baby tub, he just spills out of it! But he can sit inside the tub and then drill around the ground outside of it. I guess he’s happy. Silly big goose.
Broody Much? We still have two hens that think they’d really like to sit. Here are the two culprits. Imen, the black hen, finds a nesting box where another hen has laid and claims it as her own – we take it. The Buff in the corner gets periodically chased out by the others, they lay their eggs and she sneaks back in to claim them – we take them. Today I just picked her up off the nest and set her down outside of it, have you ever heard of the term “ruffled feathers”? I think her photo was used to illustrate the term in the Dictionary of American Slang. Just sayin’.
The Ducks have been thoroughly enjoying the little swimming pools – who wouldn’t with the weather we’ve been having. They do have a tendency to make the water dirty really quickly, though. Today we were changing it in the lower pool and they were patiently waiting for it to be filled. Pretty darn cute, those ducks. They really don’t seem to mind any of the weather we’ve been having; heat, cold, wind, rain (ok, not much rain) – they love it all!
Are they Ranging? I’m not exactly sure how our Gray Rangers got their name – ours don’t really tend to range a whole lot. It is true that they seem to run hotter than the other breeds so, during the day, they find a spot very close to water and/or food and just plop there for the afternoon. Happy as clams. Then once it gets cooler, towards evening, they have actually ranged quite farm from the coop. We have had to make sure we check everywhere for them – they hide in the most interesting areas.
“What are you doing this weekend?” Everyone seemed to ask me that today; the admin at work, the chiropractor, the mailman, the teller at the bank today. Quite frankly, I wasn’t really too sure. Mom and dad sent a vacuum (that works) home with me; I could do housework, there are still seeds that I want to plant, we’re supposed to be getting berry bushes that need to get into ground, we need to finish painting the chicken coop before the monsoon season starts, we also need to work on the circle garden. I wish I had started this blog yesterday so that I could say, “We’re making Stonehenge.” Now, after researching a bit for this blog, and having a discussion with Sue, I think that’s where the focus is going to lie- our own little Stonehenge, otherwise known as the circle garden. 
