Feathers Flowers Fur And Flutterbyes

Time flies when you're a chick...you don't 

stay little for long.

 Francis (on left) Chloe and Phoebe 

are growing like weeds

and in these photo's are 5 days old.

This is Francis above...

you can see her little wing

feathers coming in.

She has a white feather

near the bottom of her wing. 

This is Chloe.

She's my favorite. 

She will be more like her

adopted Mom in coloring

only with less gold 

and more black.

 

In the foreground is little Phoebe.

She sticks pretty close to her sister

Francis.

The chicks daddy is Romeo who 

is watching from the other side

of the fence. 

He is such a nice rooster

and was a blue ribbon winner

at the county fair 

when he was a cockerel :)

 

Golda is a VERY good mamma.

She's super protective

and works hard to teach

them how to scratch and peck 

for food.

Above she is showing little

Francis a bug on the fence.

And here Golda has spotted 

Shep on the other side of 

the fence.

She doesn't miss a thing

and if he was silly enough to 

stick his nose up to the fence

he'd get a good peck

on the nose!

 

Now that I've bored you  with

'chick pics'

here are some flower photo's for you

to see. 

Above is the first bloom to open on

my David Austin Graham Thomas

climbing rose.

This is only it's second season

and I had to move it last fall

so the plant is just getting used 

to it's new location.

Hopefully by this fall 

it is climbing the fence. 

Above is a flower bed I planted last spring.

The drought was hard on it

and there was no rock border so 

the water tended to run off.

Last weekend Hubby and I hauled

these rocks over from the pile

and set them in place.

Most of them came from the

foundation of our old 

barn that we lost

in a fire nearly 2 yrs ago. 

 

 

Henry had to come over to see 

what I was doing. 

These are some of the smaller rocks 

and you are only seeing the top half 

of each of them.

They were HEAVY.

 

I finally found the perfect

place for the old  hand plow.

 

There was another reason 

that Henry came to 

see what I was doing.

 

He had been watching these 

'flutterbyes'

on the Salvia.

 

 

They had his undivided attention.

Here's a couple on the

rhododendron.

  

I hope you have enjoyed 

your visit here on the farm and

I hope you have a

wonderful week! 

:)

Entertainment With Breakfast

I decided to have my breakfast

under the tree's this morning.

It's a BEAUTIFUL morning

and just perfect for enjoying

some of our home grown

Kansas Melons.

They're doing well despite

our terrible hot summer.

We've never planted these type 

before and we're very impressed

but we can see why they don't sell them

commercially as they don't have a long

shelf life.

Our mint is growing well too..

time to dry some for tea.

The Kansas melons are huge!

While I was enjoying my breakfast

Henry came to visit and 

decided to show off

for Lizzy and Olly

our two older cats.

This is our 'hitching post'.

This is Henry.

This is Henry on the 'hitching post'.

When Henry discovered this old thing

it was LOVE at first scratch.

This morning he was up and down 

and sideways and you name it...

he was doing it.

Well...it was fun sitting in the shade

enjoying the 'fruits' of our labor

and enjoying Henry and his antics

but the temperature is rising 

and I've got watering to do

so I must run.

I hope your day is a WONDERFUL one

and have a GREAT weekend!

Maura :)