As I've mentioned, it's decided to be spring in February here in the Pacific Northwest... (pictures taken yesterday, while it was still was).
Last week, we listened to Heather, which put me in mind of the Scottish folksong Wild Mountain Thyme. (My favorite recording is by Full Moon Ensemble but I don't see theirs on youtube, so I give you The High Kings version:)
Last week, we listened to Heather, which put me in mind of the Scottish folksong Wild Mountain Thyme. (My favorite recording is by Full Moon Ensemble but I don't see theirs on youtube, so I give you The High Kings version:)..."we'll pull wild mountain thyme from among the blooming heather".....
Thyme overwinters, but the bulk of the rest of the herbs in the yard are coming up already...
Thyme overwinters, but the bulk of the rest of the herbs in the yard are coming up already...
(From top to bottom, right to left: parsley, elephant garlic, bronze fennel, comfrey, french sorrel, tarragon, chives, rhubarb (ok, not technically an herb..), and chervil. Not shown: sweet cicely, meadow sweet, garlic chives, sage, horehound, rue, catamint, marjoram, oregano, lavender, rosemary, lemon balm - and a few others that have not started coming up yet..)
The chickens are thrilled with all the growing things and warming soil to root for bugs in. (I've hoed the winter cover-crop I planted a bit, hoping that they'll continue to turn it for me - since I haven't had time to do it properly due to deadlines. Here's crossing fingers for poultry-driven garden labor!)
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So this was the last of Barnes’s books and now I will have to wait forever for another :( But this was totally cool because I love reading about all things Sidhe (i.e. faery) related. It starts out a la sisterhood of the traveling pants, but then takes a fantastic turn. Four very different, but very close best friends are at the mall and one gets these cool looking temporary tattoos. So they all decide to put one on. Turns out the tattoos give them supernatural powers and that a great evil is coming to destroy humanity. But what can four teenage girls do? Quite a lot it turns out. In a completely surprising twist at the end, they find themselves battling evil and one will shoulder a responsibility that no mortal has ever born. It was great at intertwining different stories and leaving you surprised til the very end. I wonder if there will be a sequel? I didn’t see anything about one on her website, but you never know. But at least now I have a new great author I can add to my list. If only they would write faster!!!!
Oh goodness. Super model chickens!! These ladies are beautiful!!!
such pretty hens!
big sigh here as I gaze longingly at your herbs. Soon.
or well, not "soon." but eventually. spring will come.
Well ye go chickie go? Such hard working chickens! Rabbits just want to dig holes, but chickens, they are really useful!
I Like the song and the chickens sure look healthy! -Ross
Now that looks like spring! Your chickens are adorable :)
So your chickens do yard work? Do they hang laundry? Can they come for a visit?