The weather’s been typical Tidewater spring lately. Hot and humid, muggy and thunderstorms, cool and buggy…usually all in one day! {smile} So we opened up the sides of the chicken house for more air flow–and a few bold ladies immediately wiggled themselves through the side panels and have been free-ranging it.

I don’t even have the heart to be mad at them anymore. It’s been a 10 year battle, and they’ve won. And it’s never all of them. Usually just the same handful of trouble-makers. Frenchie here (one of our freebie chicks!) is always in the rat pack–usually in the lead! We’re on to all her hidden spots.

Henny Penny here, is Mr. Fix-It’s personal nemisis. She LOVES, L-O-V-E-S to be on his tractor. I’m not sure what’s worse for him…stepping or sitting on an egg or on piles of chicken…doo.

He’s on the tractor a lot this time of year because everything is growing like CRAZY right now! He’s just mowing, mowing, mowing to keep up. The sheep cover a lot of it, the cows a little more, but they don’t hit the paths or the fence row edges.

Of course, I appreciate when he mows the paths because the kiddos, the dogs, and I use them all the time. But if you follow us on Facebook or Instagram, you’ll see that when he doesn’t get the mowing done, the weeds are sometimes as pretty or prettier than the grass! Not as valuable–but definitely just as lovely.

Summer’s also coming fast. Just a few more weeks of school for the crew (we’re used to being out by now!) and they’ll be home…probably just in time for the wild raspberries to be ripe! (Did I ever mention how I thought the raspberry bushes my father-in-law brought me…so many years ago…were poison ivy? No? Nevermind then.)

Right now, the mulberries are ripening every day to hold us over ’till raspberry season. If we can fight the birds off for them!

How are things at your place? We’ll be working sheep this weekend and weeding the garden. It’s a never-ending job, that weeding.