Author Archives: mary g
Day after new years
John took pictures with my camera today. Lots of pet shots and pictures from a walk through the pines, down to the river, and up the stream trail. Schroeder focused on catching sticks.
16th annual Grandma Terry bowl-a-thon
Moving the shed
Since we moved to Amissville, we were never satisfied with the location of the storage shed next to the graveyard on our property. So this fall I looked into having it moved. We decided to place it next to the… Read more ›
New keets
Queenie, our Speckled Sussex with keet-raising experience from last year, and Black Australorp Auntie (short for anthracite) are taking care of the first six of ten guinea keets to hatch this year… Update November 23, 2012: This morning the dogs… Read more ›
Daylily “dark sunrise”
This is a daylily I developed; I call it “dark sunrise.” By developed, I mean threw a bunch of weeds and seed heads (including daylilies) in a brush pile and this one seeded itself. It is not like any planted… Read more ›
Visit to Richmond
A short visit to help Genny tie up her tomato plants and see her and Sarah, although Sarah was in the kitchen cooking for a good part of the time.
Morning
Poes Road wildlife
Turning onto Poes Road on my way home I saw figures in the road. A doe leapt into the brush on the east of the road. I slowed the car and saw a brand-new fawn, tiny and speckled, awkwardly scurrying… Read more ›
North garden update
Turkey hens and young
Poults and chicks get new digs
We put the chicks and poults in house 1 the night before last since yesterday was going to be rainy. This afternoon, I let them out into the poultry yard.
This is what summer looks like
North garden in spring
Madeline graduates from Simmons!
0GinnyMae’s wedding reception
Our niece GinnyMae and her beau Scott got married at the Washington DC Mormon temple. We went to their reception. They held it in a beautiful round barn in Biglersville, PA. Good company, food and dancing.
Raising poults
This year, I decided to invest in incubators to help hatch turkey eggs. In 2011, I borrowed incubators for eggs the setting turkey hens could not handle. Some from a crowded nest and some because of heavy rain in an… Read more ›
Happy Thanksgiving, turkeys
0Five of the turkey hens took advantage of us while we were having coffee by the fire in the living room this morning; they came in through my office door, which was open for the dogs to use the backyard.… Read more ›
Stream walk
August 17 and 18 Late in the summer, it appears our stream dries up. This comes as no surprise, since you can follow the streamcourse to its various sources in about the time it takes to drink a fairly hot… Read more ›
Hatches part 2: Chickens in spring
April 28 through June 15 As with the turkeys, I decided to let the chickens hatch eggs this year. My friend Dolly swears that letting the chickens take care of the process is much better, and easier, than doing it… Read more ›