First bloom from my Martha Washington Lilac bush I got for Mothers day a couple years ago

apple trees

My flowers and apple trees are blooming. I love spring and summer

Chickens on hold. Husband worried that the Jack Russells will have them as snacks.  I am getting ready for planting season, I have a list of flowers I want to buy from the Amish and have gotten my potting soil and new pots last weekend.

I have decided to raise my own chickens for eggs. I ordered 3 Barrock and 3 Buff Orington chicks. They will be here March 5. I drew up the plans for remodeling the guniea pig pen into a chicken coop. I have two old windows I am going to recaulk, repaint and fit them up to the bottom of the pig cage, add nest boxes and roosts, close in the bottom and add a closing chicken door. I will get the Amish boys up here to help me build a wire run. I will wait until warm weather do do that. But for now, i have to get the Brooder ready to hold the chicks. Picked up food dish and water dish Friday. I am going to use either a large plastic tub or the wire guniea pig cage to put them in. I have a floor lamp to put over them. I have been reading alot of books on chickens and researching alot on the internet. so I think I pretty much got it all covered. Only problem will be keeping the one crazy jack russell from killing them. He has killed chickens before of the neighbors. I will have to not let them loose when he is outside.