Well, I’m up bright and early this morning (been up since 3:30 AM actually!).  I’ve been working day and night (literally!) on this special project that should be wrapping up soon.  Unfortunately, for me it means that I haven’t been out to the garden or to see the animals since last Friday morning.  But don’t worry, DH and DD have been taking care of them and doing the feeding and collecting eggs.   Thank goodness — without my family filling in for me and covering my chores, I don’t know what I could have done LOL. 

I usually leave out early in the morning and I don’t get back home until 1 or 2 AM…. yeppers!  But yesterday evening I was just dead beat and couldn’t go any further.  So, the group knocked off at 6:45 PM and decided to call it a day.  We all needed some rest.  Nodding off at the computer isn’t good and we don’t want to make any clerical errors in our work (would be disasterous!).   So I came home and was in bed at 7:30 PM.  I slept until 3:30 AM (8 hours) this morning.  I feel like a million bucks this morning, all rested up and ready to go back and tackle “the project” again.

But back to the garden and animals…. guess what?  The Rhode Island Red that was broody has FINALLY gotten over it.  Yes!  DH has been out feeding and collecting eggs and said that for two days in a row she hasn’t been sitting in the nest box.  So that is good news.  She was defintely one meany while she was broody LOL   Otherwise, the Rhode Island Red hens have been so sweet.  I would definitely recommend this breed to anyone who would like to keep chickens for their eggs.   All of mine have laid the largest, oval brown eggs… many of which have been double yolks!

My last trip to the feed store yielded a purchase of garlic and onion sets…. I had gone to the feed store to purchase more feed for the steers and was very happy to see the garlic and onion sets there.  I probably purchased way to many onion sets though LOL  I am hoping that I will have a little time this coming weekend to get them into the ground.

Well, it’s 5 AM now and I really need to get going this morning :-)   I hope that you’re having a great week….