A Wild Eagle Nest

In Norfolk Botanical Garden this Eagle has 3 chicks. Here she is feeding her chicks fish. You can watch live video on the Eagle Cam.

Other news from here-- I’ve been busy. The busier I get the less I post. Sorry…

Our garden is growing! Yippee! The seedlings love my greenhouse. I’ve started more plants because the first ones are doing so well.

The new dirt for my garden arrived last week. I spent the whole afternoon shoveling it till I moved the fence-high pile all over the garden area. Jered came home when I was about 1/2 done and he grabbed his barn boots and helped me shovel the rest of the dirt.

We bought a rototiller from a neighbor. Jeff worked it on the outside edge of the garden, which now is twice as big as it was last year.

Last years garden.

The rototiller works great. We were hoping to till in all the new soil but the rain came back.

Yesterday was a nice day and very warm out. I put the greenhouse outside so the plants could get ready for planting in the garden.

Some of the plants are probably ready to be put into the dirt but I want to give them an equal chance at hardening in the cooler outdoor weather.

So for now they are zipped in the greenhouse at night and open to the elements during the day. I’ll start planting in a few days. Grace is excited about that.

I’ve always wanted fruit trees. Now that we don’t have horses in the pasture to knock them down we have room for fruit trees.

On Saturday Jeff and Jered planted 5 trees. They are the short little things with paper wrapped around the trunks. We have 2 cherry, one red and one green apple, and a plum tree that is blooming already. I’m still looking for a pear tree to buy. I know it will be a few years before we get fruit. Hopefully the trees will thrive where they are and produce a lot.

Grace has been on a diet of sorts. We have cut out the High Fructose Corn Syrup in packaged foods to see if that helps with the ADHD. I don’t have much control over what she eats at school. She eats nearly nothing so what ever she eats at school is a plus, even if it is HFCS.

Emily has been sick off and on. She’s having trouble with allergies and wheezing this week. Seems to be getting to everyone around here.

And me, well I’ve been using my sewing machine. I’ll post pictures in another entry. I’ve also been busy spring cleaning. I need to find a permanent home for my new sewing machine so the upstairs HAS to be reorganized. Not my favorite job, probably my least favorite, but it has to be done. Isn’t this where some good Samaritan group comes out of the woodwork for a day of moving and cleaning for a worthy cause??? Na, probably not. But maybe I’ll pray for that to happen when we order our new carpets…. lots of furniture to move around on that day.

Thanks for listening ~