the_yardening | Winter time, and the living is lazy (Reply)

Brief update, just to prove the blog isn't dead. :)

The chickens are now used to regularly going out into the compost yard for several hours during the day, then returning to the covered coop area at night. They love it, and I had no idea compost could be so darn fluffy.

With the last warm blush of pre-spring weather, the girls were up to 3-4 eggs a day, but now that it is cold and rainy again, they are once more down to 0-2 eggs a day. not that I blame them. Cold and drizzly wouldn't inspire me either...Or, as

gryphynshadow put it: "today is not a good day to bring babies into the world". :)

The children recently harvested a huge portion of tiny baby carrots from the yard, along with the vastly overgrown radishes. The shapes radishes end up in when too much moisture causes them to split are, quite frankly, incredibly lewd.

pics later when I upload them from the camera. ~grin~

The broccoli has continued to slowly produce a bit here, a bit there. In fact, we recently harvested a bunch that had flowered, and yet was still incredibly sweet. I don't understand it, but I did enjoy it. nom nom.

That's about it here...stay warm, ya'll!