Around The Farm

The fantail pigeons have been making nests and laying eggs, but so far nothing has come of it. I think it's still too cold:

The little hens have done pretty well at keeping their room reasonably clean, and they are both happy and healthy:

Fergus watched me weed the Day Lily bed, which runs alongside the dogs' fence:

And the Sunflower bed, which is adjacent to the Day Lily bed, was much easier to weed because nothing was planted there yet:

The Iris and Asiatic Lily bed was starting to grow, so I quickly weeded that also:

The farm sign was losing its paint, so I took it down and plan to hang it inside the barn:

The white and yellow Daffodils finally flowered:

They are beautiful. The pure yellow ones will bloom next, followed by the pure white ones:

Another of the six baby roses bloomed, this one with a very large bud. This is how it looked on day one:

On day two it put on quite a show:

On day three it was fully open and quite large, as you can tell by my hand in the picture. This variety is called Carefree Delight. I hope it lives up to its name:

And the Darlow's Enigma climbing rose put out one tiny, white flower. It is supposed to be a prolific and continuous bloomer, with vines which can sometimes cover a whole house. It may not do quite that well here in the far north, yet I still have high hopes for it:

Blue And Remy

It's early spring and Remy is finding lots of green grass to eat, probably more of it than he should eat. In this photo, it appeared that the cows were watching with amazement as he binged:

Both horsey boys are eating well and enjoying the slowly improving weather:

Gracie and Blue found a soft, dry place to nap in the afternoon sun:

And I continue to bring out hay bales, though the end is in sight:

Blue's hooves seem to be getting sore from eating too much fresh grass. He lies down too often and doesn't seem to want to get up. I will have to do something soon:

Are you talking about me?

But they are a happy pair, enjoying springtime:

Nobody needs to walk to the stock tank for water:

And nobody is going hungry:

As you can see, the pasture is greening up rapidly:

One morning I found Blue on the east side of the barn, looking wistfully across the road at the north field, which was even greener than the field he's in:

Remy was there too, but he was busy gobbling up grass by the old silo base. I need to find a way to limit these boys' grass consumption. Stay tuned for how this turns out: