A Wet Thursday

We had hail this afternoon, though you will have to take my word for it. 

There is a tornado watch until 8 PM, and there is a tornado on 

the ground far north of us in DeKalb County, Missouri. 

It's too soon for this!!! 

Sorry for the trash sacks in the picture, I am CLEANING out. 

These three little birds are coming with me... Moe, 

Fluffernut and April. 

As is Fleura

And Snowflake

And, if we can catch her... this little white hen with the black tail in the rafters of the old henhouse. 

I am going to try to find homes for Speedy, on the left here... and Ferdy, the big rooster. 

We are going to take them to the feed store parking lot if we have to, along with two of the three blue roosters. 

The blue roosters are the reason that these five won't come down.  

I am praying that when the blue roosters go, that these five will come down for some ground time. 

They deserve it, they have spent their entire lives here. 

This morning after breakfast, I tackled this trough that I planted 

corn in last year.  

And I filled in some of the holes the hens had made in the perennial bed. 

Then I tackled THIS.  

Here's a better view.  You can see that there IS a dividing wall in the old henhouse... and

I am standing in the door of the "feed room side".  I used it as henhouse all winter... so this morning, 

shoveled up all the refuse and used straw from that side.  I'd like to turn this place over in good shape 

at some point, when it is sold.  

I shut the door, to keep the birds on the coop side. 

Though I cannot explain this... this is a porcelain rooster 

laying in the nest that the red hens who lived here 

used ... in our nursing cage, which is up on stilts.  You can 

see the door to it open on the left in the above picture.
I was always used to glancing to my left as I came in the 

door to see who was laying... and this morning, there was 

someone THERE! 

The cleanings from the henhouse went to the compost heap, for future gardeners to use here. 

You have to be VERY careful about where you step in the garden beds. 

Abby!

Abby!

Abs!!!!

Lil was busy chewing on a bone. 

Right now, we have half sunny, half cloudy skies.  
We are under a tornado watch until 8 PM.  

There is a tornado on the ground far north of us, in DeKalb County, Missouri. 

Keith asked me not to take a load to the new house this afternoon until the weather settles a little, 
but twice as I worked on this post the lights have gone out. 

It is extremely windy. 

Friends, I will get caught up on all your blogs, I promise! 

Tomorrow I will do a short post, and then Saturday morning, we get the big truck 
and our help... sons, grandsons and friends, all show up to move us. 
We will be disconnecting the televisions and the computer.  They will not be hooked up again 
until Monday afternoon... when the cable man comes.  
If you do not see a post from us... don't fear. 

We have MUCH work to do here at the old place for the next few weeks, if not months. 
The outbuildings need to be emptied, and we need to dispose of "farm stuff".  
Yes, a little bit of my heart goes every time we let something go... but I know it is best 
right now. 

Yesterday, I fell in our drive, a bad fall.  I skinned myself up through jeans and Carhartt, which, thank heavens, I was wearing.  I became caught on the gate, and fell hard enough to see stars. 
Just another reminder that I need to slow life down a little. 

I am so enjoying reading all the "Planting Posts" on Facebook right now, and seeing what 
other gardeners are doing... so see, the dream is still alive... just dampered for a little while!