Bloomin flowers

We now have a sunflower that is blooming.  It seems to be way ahead of all the rest of them.  I thought they would be about 4-5 feet tall but they are only like 2 feet tall, if that.

Think I shall go let the chicks out for a while.  Let them run around for an our or so..  And pray they don't get lost in the yard.

Neck still hurts.  Been hurting bad for about five days now.  August 3d can't get here soon enough.  

Garden is coming along GREAT!!

Just about ready to pick a bell pepper in the garden.  Its the biggest pepper I have ever gotten in the garden.  There are also some zucchinis growing and should be ready to pull in a few days.  Spinach is coming up good too.

Took the little chicks out today to run in the yard for a few minutes.  Still a bit cold for them, yet.  they aren't fully feathered yet, so will still have to wait a week or so...

With the quail, I am pretty sure there are 4 males and one female i this batch.  not even close to the #s I wanted.  I was hoping for 5 females.  Oh well.  Might try again next year.  then again, we might be done with quail.  We'll see, I guess.

Camping, chickens, and eggs

So, after camping for a week up on mount rainier, I am back.  Yesterday, Lauren and I canned 33 pounds of cherries.  Well, it was more like 30 pounds because I ate a LOT on the way home.

And today, I made a peach pie and an apple pie.  Tanya is taking them to the ocean with her for her sorority sisters.  i hope she has some left to bring back home.  But I am betting there won't be any.

I think in about a week or so, we will be able to let the 2 younger chickens out and let them live with the older ones.  Not sure if they are male of female yet.  I'm hoping they are female, of course.  Because its the eggs we are after.

The baby quail are not so baby now, either.  I think there are 4 males and a female.  that would suck.  Because I really don't want only 2 females and 5 males.  Again, its all about the eggs.  Garden is coming along great.  chickens will get locked up in their own little pen on or about the 1st of August.  Then, we will have no more chicken bombs on the back porch.

So, I've been a bit busy again for the last few.  Now, I hope, I can start posting here daily.  (That is, iffin I remember to)

We now have 5 new quail out in the brooder in the shed.  And we also now have 4 chicken eggs in the bator.  They've been in there for a week, so, it should be about 14 days till we have new chicken fun.  the egg colours are green/blue, white, and 2 browns.  I think I am gonna need to find someone with an olive-egger to add variety to our selection of yummy eggs. 

Lily didn't let the chickens out the other day and I didn't notice it until about 2PM.  Now, they are starting to lay more in the hen house.  I hope they stay doing that. 

Hatching quail and finding eggs.

So, for a few days now (7-8) we have only gotten one egg every other day or so.  Been wondering where they were laying them.  Found a small pile of 8 eggs today, though.  Not sure how old they are, so not gonna eat em. 

Also today, we are on day 24 with the quail.  So far, we have had 4 hatch and one egg is ready to open.  So, we are almost at 5 out of the 12.  Brooder is set up and all is well so far.  But, I need to find my red light.  I only know, right now, where the white light is because it was in the quail pen from the winter.  Once it is found, I'll put it on the chicks so they are not aggressive. 

     Well, here we are on the 24th of may.  Haven't been here in a while, so, obviously, much to say. 

     For starters, I am a grandfather.  Kylee had her baby.  6 lbs 14oz. 

     My back is still screwed up.  Hurts when I sleep.  And still doing PT for it. 

     2 days ago was the due date for the quail.  None have hatched yet.  However, after looking this morning, Lily has seen one that has a small hole in it.  So, we should have at least one quail later.  Guess its time to set up the brooder for them.

     Went camping last weekend.  Was a great time, but missed Tanya lots while away.  Will be going camping in 9 days with the scouts again.  Gonna be doing some fishing,  I guess I will meed to get my license renewed.  And I think it is gonna cost me an extra $10 because I didn't send in my crab endorsement.  Why, exactly, I have a crab endorsement, I don't know.

     Not sure what else I missed.  Iffin I think of anything else, I'll get back on here and write some more.

I;m BAAAaaaa....

After 2 weeks, I is back.

We spent a week down at Disneyland with Lily.  She loved it.  Then, after getting back, I found that my computer was dead.  So, been screwing around trying to get it going/get something going.  Now, I have the old laptop hooked in with the big screen. 

So.  This is what's been going on:  Lily now has 2 customers for eggs.  We just got back from Aunt DeDe's.  She loves em.  And, of course, our original customer at King's Row Antiques.   We have put some new eggs in the incubator.  There are 10 of them.  And they are from our own quail this time.  We haven't seen the quail getting busy, so, we are not sure if they are fertile or not.  fut, being there are 2 males and one female, our odds are good.  They are on day 3 right now. 

Lily's b-day was yesterday.  It was pretty laid back until she told her cousin that she didn't get anything from mom and dad yet.  We had to have a sit down with her about Disneyland....

That's about it for now.