Mar. 19, 2009 - ~The Gardening Club, starring Julia the chicken
Julia is my favored chicken. She is not like other chickens....I'd say she's more like a dog. My mother in law was over a while back and while we were talking outside the fence we gave Julia a hollar 'Here Julia....come on girl', just like our other dogs she came running as fast as she could. I have GOT to get this chicken on video!
This is a picture of Julia just the other day while I was taking photos of our garden to put up on the blog. Just on the other side of the fence (here) where she's standing is our worm pool. Don't tell me chickens are stupid and can't remember because when I go out to tend to the worm pool she almost always comes begging for worms. Some times I'll spot her out there trying to figure out how to get on the other side of the fence to get to the worms herself! She looks up. She looks to the side. She walks back and forth....pacing. But somehow she knows that fence is just a little too high 
Anyhow...I had to put Julia in here since it's been a while and she is my favorite. The children each have their favorites too. Especially with the new round of chicks we're raising. They each have their very own 'pets'.
Sometimes they drive them in their cars....
Sometimes they're being trained for tricks.....
(so this is how he keeps getting scratches on his face!)
They sure do love their chickens!
And here's our weekly garden update......
Here is the side section of the yard (where the animals cannot ruin the vegetables).
Off in the distance you can see (I hope) our two rows of onions. Doing great, but I added worm castings to the left row because they were so much smaller than the right row. Maybe this will give them a chance to catch up before harvest time.
The lettuce are growing great and we'll start harvesting the first heads in about 2 weeks. The peppers and tomatoes I planted last week or a few days ago are beginning to peek through. I have my fingers crossed 'X'.
No pictures of the potatoes....but BOY are they growing! I have to hill them every few days. So far so good......
Yesterday hubby and I planted (his muscle....I just pointed the direction I wanted them to go) the fuju and tangerine trees. We were waiting until the weather was right. Now they're in the ground and we'll soon transplant our limes because they just aren't doing well in the containers.
The blueberry bushes are turning 'blue' around where the blossoms have fallen off, the peach trees are extra bushy, and the apple trees are blossoming! Every week there is a bit of maintenance on the bushes and trees. I'm either dressing them, watering them, or fertilizing them. But one day they'll need less care and will be producing bushels of fruit for years to come! That's the plan anyhow.....
Here's a link to the garden club:
And lastly, here are those Havner quotes I listed this morning.....
"We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste."
"Too many churches start at eleven o'clock sharp, and end at twelve o'clock dull."
"Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe."
"Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons, or more sermons into the fire."
"The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints."
"Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum."
"If there had been a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home."
"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."
Comments
Mar. 20, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Petersonclan
Looks wonderful. We had a chicken like that... Mr. Beaver... but he looked just like another of the roosters and accidentally didn't make it through a "Chicken Culling". Oops.
Your garden looks great.
Mar. 21, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by SweetSavages
Julia is beautiful!!
Isn't Julia a name you loved for a girl at some point, or it it part of one of your girls' names? sounds familiar...
