Welcome to Morning Glory Farm

Yesterday, while holding Lucy, I tripped and she got tossed into the air. She fluttered down between some azaleas and my front porch. (Her wings are starting to fill out.) We all scrambled to keep the dog (an English Springer Spaniel---read bird dog here!!) and the 2 cats from getting to her first. She kept running away from everyone else, but as soon as my hand was on the ground she ran and jumped on it. It's very sweet.

She likes to sit on my shoulder...I've never fancied myself a pirate, but she got interested in the reflections in my eye and gave me a love peck that took all day to recover from. Bird on my shoulder and eye patch...recipe for pirate??? I'm hoping to get a small run built for Lucy this afternoon, so she can enjoy the world outside the aquarium. We've been using a playpen turned upside down, but it's hard to keep my grandson from wanting to join her under it. Construction on the 'real' chicken habitat will begin in a couple weeks. Then I'm ordering the flock of Rhode Island Reds,  Silver Wyandottes, and Aracaunas (Easter egg chickens) that I've been planning for 2 years.

On the gardening front, I was picking up some supplies at the building supply store just 1/4 mile from the house 2 Thursdays ago. A long-time family friend was assisting me with my purchase. I asked their price for bundles of hay and he told me he had just sold the last they had. Then he said, "Why don't you go up to my place and get some barn litter? You're practically family. You don't have to call first, just go get what you want." Well, let me tell you....I almost did the happy dance right there in the store!!!! I now have an unlimited supply of 'garden gold'!  I called my husband at the post office as soon as I got to my car. I said, "Guess what we're doing this afternoon?" When he got home we hooked the trailer on the van, loaded the grandson and the shovels and headed up to get the mixture of manure and straw. We got about 500 lbs...that's a good start. It's composting next to where it will be spread next week. Our grandson wanted to help unload the "noodles" (he thought the straw looked like spaghetti). It was a very productive garden day!!

When my dh went to work the next day he told his co-workers, "Some women you have to buy diamonds to make them happy. I just have to get Patty a load of poop." LOL You experienced gardeners know just what I'm talking about, don't you!!!