Seriously weird shit!

I went down to my sis in laws family farm yesterday and had a very nice visit. My big bro graduated college and we threw a little get together for him as well as celebrating fathers day.
There is always something interesting going on down at the farm.

This time I got to play with a baby goat, eat honest to goodness home churned ice cream and meet Skully the wonderchicken.

Poor little Skully somehow got cornered or trapped in the chicken run and the other mean chickens began to peck her head. They pecked and pecked until she had no feathers, they kept pecking until she had no scalp...

The farm folk took her in and helped resusitate her and gave her a little pen of her own. So far she seems to be doing pretty well, aside from the completly exposed cranium!!

She is a really sweet rather tame chicken and seems to like people ( who would blame her?)
If you click on the photo below you can see her skullcap!

Greetings kiddies





Nothing much too exciting going on these days. Bf and I spent a very nice Mothers Day with Bf's Mom. We went for a nice hike out at Lords Trail out in Snohomish. It's a great park, not too hilly, ponds with beaver dams and a fantastic view point with wild strawberries and lots of wildflowers.





After our hike we did lunch at The Cabbage Patch, which is always good.





Been busy in the garden. trying to stay on top of things this year. Lets's see, so far I have planted


Brussels sprouts


potatoes


spaghetti squash


Cucumber



Mustard Greens( the parrots love these!)


Zuccini


2 different kinds of pumpkin


Several kinds of tomatoes


A few different kinds of lettuce


Swiss chard


strawberries


Raspberries


Beans


Peas


corn


I still have some cabbage left to put in,


The fruit trees are doing well so far. No sign of those annoying apple aphids I had last year. It looks like we night actually get some cherries this year too. I may even get to use my fancy dancy cherry pitter thingy ma jig and make a pie or something.





Added some herbs this year too, basil, couple kinds of lavander,thyme,oregano, chives, rosemary,mint and some other ones that I am still not quite sure what they are. I had pulled up a dying rosemary bush and a tarragon plant that was fading and found what I think is a marjoram plant and a spearmint that had been quitely living under the other two old

plants







Got a giggle out of this ; )

The absolute cutest picture ever!!

Here is the Bf thumb/foot wrestling with his little niece Leah





Leah is a real sweetie, She's just learning how to streach and grimace!




















What's all that stuff on the sofa?



















There's no room for us
Being bored I got the thought in my head to organize all my handspun yarn.
(yes I know insanity) So gathering up all I could see I managed to hide the sofa. Now all of this is just what I can see in baskets in the living room. This does not include the stuff I can't see in the fiber closet and storage boxes

So now I have taken a moment to admire them all and then place them back into the baskets by color this time. I still won't know everything I have but at least now I have a pastel basket, an earth tones baskets, blues baskets....

The BF set up the birds nest with a camera he gave me awhile ago. There has been a chickadee popping in now and then cheching out the diggs.
It's pretty neat,he stops every now and then and gives the camera the eye.
I had an old bird house over on the fence that I thought no one was interested in. I took it down becuase there were wasps essing with it and found this old abandond nest. I know it's old becuase it had some old silk fiber I had put out a couple of years ago for the birds.
That's the white fluffy stuff around the top of the nest

Family Traditions,

The Bf and I had a very nice Easter with his family. Grandpop and the nieces Emma and Leah were there. Emma looked lovely in a very pretty easter dress and little Leah was happy to sleep most of the day away.

At one point everyone was filling up thier plates with ham and bf's moms famous deviled eggs Emma's Dad had placed an egg on his plate and then turned around. Unknown to him the egg then flew off his plate and landed directly on Miss Emma.

Miss Emma took this undignified assult very personally and took some convincing that Dad did not throw the egg at her on purpose. Needless to say everyone had a good laugh and the tears didn't last very long.
So now the family has a new Easter tradition of pelting small children with deviled eggs.
My chickens must have heard this story because the other day I found this new aerodynamic streamlined torpedo egg along with a rounder bomb egg.


In other news I have been spinning and knitting some, Here are Lily and Jasmine modeling a couple of scarves I made from handspun.

And here is the big backlog of spinning drying in the sun.

Sunny Sunday..

After a cold and rainy week we finally had some sun this weekend. I actually felt well enough to get out and do some work int he yard.
First off was tackling the chicken coop. With this winter being as harsh as it was I had given the girls lots of extra straw to keep them warm and they have been fertilizing it al winter long.

They weren't too happy about me messing around in thier house and every time I left to get fresh straw they ran in to check everything out only to panic and make a ruckus when I returned to throw in new straw.

All the girls seem happy and healthy, I think all 6 are laying now, as I get a half dozen nearly every day.

The back yard is starting to come back to life. The Lilacs are budding as are all the fruit trees. I can see some bulbs had tried to come up but the chickens have been nibbling on them. So it won't be long before the girls will be quarentined back in thier run so things can have a chance to grow.

Hannah got a rare treat. I pruned a couple of branches from the apple tree and she really enjoyed chewing up the bark.

Nothing much else going on. Bf made some wonderful french bread the other day

Happy Birthday

Leah Nicole!!!

Today the Bf's little sister had a beautiful baby girl just before noon today. The Bf and I happened to be out and about when the call came. She a few days late but she eventually decided to make an entrance.

Big sister Emma was very happy to meet her little sister and check all her fingers and toes.

CONGRATULATIONS MOM AND DAD!!!

Found A Few Dollars...


Well I had taken this week off with the hopes of working in the garden but the weather had other ideas. So The Bf took a day off yesterday and we took off for the ocean.

We headed out to West Port.


















Since we got an early start we were the only ones at the beach when we got there. The weather was a little stormy and we got a little wet but it wasn't too bad. We walked along the beach and on some of the trails leading up to the Grays Harbour lighthouse.





















Usually when we beach comb I look for seaglass and the odd pretty shell. To find a sand dollar is a rarity...usually they are already broken but for some reason on this beach there were tons of them.




















After wandering around we went tot he town. Most of the shops were closed for the off season but we found a really good restaurant called the The One eyed Crab. The food was delicious.
































If your ever in West Port, check this place out, they have crabs ; )