I love this time of year, when it gets more and more reliably warm. The plants are happy, the animals are happy, and we are happier too! We’ve been enjoying our daily salads straight from our greenhouse and garden. There is so much lettuce: salad bowl lettuce, red and green leaf romaine, spinach, bibb and more that we’ve even been giving some away. We also have been eating radishes and I ate my first greenhouse strawberry of the season today at lunch.
The other day Britton went out to gather the goods for a salad and we had a few uninvited guests to our salad lunch. Slugs! They were small, but nonetheless were enjoying our leafy greens. We picked through it and checked each piece and came up with about 4 slugs. Luckily we have slug-o-matics called chickens who devoured them in a snap.
Close up of a slug on Britton’s hand
Then, of course, after a good meal, everyone wants to take a nap. So it was siesta time. I wish I could take a siesta every day!
Chicken Siesta
Cat Nap
Do they do the dirt bath thing or is the ground still frozen?
We are all thawed out now. They are doing the whole dirt bath thing.
The weather has gotten a lot warmer. We have lows in the mid 40’s now instead of mid 30s.
You got some chubby chickens! And the cat looks like he is dreaming of Angels…how old is he/she?
That isn’t the first time someone has mentioned that our chickens are on the plump side!
Kitty is 7 or 8 now I think. He is a cool cat.