Barn Swallows are Back

Each sum­mer we have sev­er­al nests of barn swal­lows. Late last week I watched the first of the barn swal­lows fly across the pas­ture. This morn­ing I had the first evi­dence that house­keep­ing has start­ed. One of the oldest/biggest nests … 

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Funny Faces

Just for amuse­ment val­ue. This is what life looks like around here in the spring. Click on the pho­to to embiggen. Real­ly, it’s worth it. I’ll wait… And here he is look­ing a lit­tle less goony.

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Chicken Update

The friz­zled ban­ty hen has man­aged to hide out and hatch a hand­ful of chicks.  Jim caught this one out for a snack. Hope­ful­ly they will stay in the barn long enough to grow to be too big for the crows … 

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Playing Catch Up.

A new toy.     But before we can do any­thing about that… We have to fix this. Yeah, that’s pret­ty much half of the dash pulled out. Tomor­row night the oth­er half comes out. All because I don’t like cold feet.   (Update …

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