I have to make my own Spring since ours has seemed to have vanished. What is up with the weather?? It is cold and rainy here. On Sunday we had hail of biblical proportions.
Kelly stopped by the other day and brought me a sweet little wicker chair. She also gave me the tin and I promptly plopped a minature rose in it. I'll eventually plant it outside but I like it in the tin for now.
Let's see - what has been going on around here? We've been making plans to redo our deck (all gazillion square feet of it) and some landscaping work. As soon as it is underway I'll post about it. Our deck is about to fall off. Well it's actually only about two feet off the ground but it is rapidly declining.
Since we are basically going with the exact same layout and size I'm not overly excited about it. Yes, nice to get it done but visually it won't look much different. The landscaping, on the other hand, I am excited about.
We have a sloped circle in the middle of our driveway. We are going to have a natural rock retaining wall put in on the lower end so we can make it level. Then we will put in a crab apple tree in the center and other flowering shrubs around the tree. I think it will look quite nice when you drive up. And I love flowering crab apple trees.
We are having a bit of drama with Ina. We thought she was egg-bound, which is dire. But now we are wondering if she isn't just broody. She won't leave her nesting box voluntarily and when have made her she just walks around all poofed up.
We checked and there doesn't seem to be an egg stuck up there (I'll just leave that particular process up to your imagination....). We decided to separate her from the others and when we picked her up out of the nesting box there were three eggs under her.
Hopefully she'll snap out of it.
Andrea, What a darling wicker chair (and mini-rose in the tin!) Looks like spring to me ~ so cheerful. No real feel of spring here, either. :(
Your drive is going to look so pretty and welcoming with the crab apple tree, that is a great idea to level the area with a retaining wall.
Sheesh, two of our Buff Orpingtons are uber-broody this spring as well. They are so stubborn ~ when I remove them from the nest they just roll around like footballs, refusing to extend their legs to walk.
They are wonderful broodies, but we no longer have any roosters. Hopefully they will tire of this routine eventually!
Posted by: Mari @ Once Upon a Plate | May 18, 2011 at 09:38 AM
If you give your chickens a laxative do the eggs come out scrambled? I am loving this cool weather as I am not a summer person. However, am wondering what all the runoff will do to our levees.
Posted by: Pesky Patti | May 18, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Cute wicker chair especially with the potted rose! The deck re-do sounds like a pain, but necessary. I like the drive/crab tree idea. Poor little Ina... :( Hope she's totally over it; geesh, three at once! (or is that normal? I don't have a clue about chickens, just think they're cute and funny.)
Posted by: Christine | May 18, 2011 at 03:19 PM
I would really like to see a picture of poofy Ina. Never seen a poofed up chicken before. I'd REALLY like to see pictures of Mari's ^^ chickens rolling around like footballs. Now THAT would make me laugh!
Posted by: Karen | May 18, 2011 at 04:45 PM