Bucolic

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Although April is not what you'd call warm yet, and rain is still on the horizon, here is what is true this morning:  my sweet old mare can be out in her corral having her breakfast instead of in her stall because the ground is too muddy; the lilacs are putting forth their apple-green leaves and buds; a small spider dared to spin a web fully exposed to the fickle elements; my backyard hens are now laying 6-8 eggs a day instead of 2 or none.

All sure signs that our hemisphere is turning toward the sun.

Just as it should.

Albeit
               so
                           very
                                          slowly.

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Very Late Autumn (Winter Really) in my Garden - Fine Feathered Hens

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Lacy & Ahm, all decked out in their new feathers

My 11 silly hens stopped laying eggs and began to molt in early November just as the unseasonably cold weather set in. These two now have fine sets of new feathers to keep them warm while some of the others are still looking pretty bedraggled (they wouldn't pose for a photo - too embarrassed).

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Our Backyard Chickens - Let Us Out!

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Okay, we've had our breakfast,

we've laid our eggs for cryin' out loud,

you promised we'd be free-range hens,

can we puh-leeze come out now?

And of course I did let them out, but these gals will lay eggs pretty much where ever they want and looking for them around the yard, under bushes, in the forest, is not my idea of fun. So they stay in their pen until egg laying is over for the day. Plus I get a hoot out of the way they "talk" to me when they want out. Such demanding girls.

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