When I had a beekeeping friend inspect my hive early this summer, she said that the hive was way too small and not building up properly, and was likely not going to make it through the winter. I requeened in September, and I fed and hoped. The hive dwindled down in numbers, but I didn’t […]
We got a little snow last night. It snowed a couple of inches yesterday, but then melted off, and snowed again overnight. This morning, we had just a dusting on everything, but it was all fluffy and frozen. I always think our house looks best with snow on it. The garden got just enough snow […]
The fertile Marans eggs arrived in the mail today! They were all well-packaged, and all six of them arrived whole and uncracked. They’re not quite as large as Ginger’s freakishly Jumbo eggs, but their color is excellent. I set up a broody box for Sue in the upstairs bathroom, where we raised the Ameracuana chicks […]
Today, for the first time, I saw Little Bit crow. So far, at least, it’s really low-volume; I hope we don’t end up with a full-on rooster crow, because they’re not allowed in the City of Dallas. If “she” turns out to be a “he,” we may have to get rid of her.
I finally got a good shot of Little Bit. She is about the size of a pigeon. Sue has decided to go broody. She was setting eggs when we got her from Bageniece Farms. Most of the hens we have are from breeds that don’t tend to go broody, and I’m hopeful that she’ll turn […]
A friend of mine is working on writing a description of a textile, and is having trouble describing the hem. I’ve seen similar turned-scallop technique in San-Blas applique, but I don’t know if there’s an English term that describes this. This is showing the back. You can see where the brighter printed color from the […]
Today was the holiday party for the Rainbow Garden Club – Dallas’s gay gardening group. I had to take something fabulous for the potluck. I started with a pound of deli ham, a pack of sliced Swiss cheese, a pack with capicola, calabrese, and peppered salami, two bricks of cream cheese, some cherry tomatoes, and […]
We got these chickens piece-meal, a few at a time. We’d never had them before, and started out with five Ameraucanas, tiny week-old balls of fluff… three of which turned out to be roosters. I got Jeanette off an ad in Craigslist; she was supposed to be a Maran, but isn’t. We took the three […]
I’m trying this out to see if animated GIFS are supported by my WordPress install: If it works, it should be moving. It’s from this video:
My first thought was, “Hmm, the hyacinth bean vine has started growing onto the ailanthus bush. But something didn’t seem quite right… And, not a great surprise in this yard… it’s a beautiful little snake. Such a sweet little face! I think it’s a Rough Green Tree Snake, Opheodrys aestivus. He crawled onto the fence […]