Hopefully hatching chicken eggs...

Well, driving home from a new friend's house with nine fresh, still warm, fertile chicken eggs sitting in my passenger seat I convinced myself that I should try to "grow" them rather than eat them. This is a first for me and I may well be setting myself up for failure but I just had to try... Everything I've read online was very specific about maintaining 100* temp with only 1* fluctuation and very specific humidity or they won't hatch. I'm really good at justifying things and convinced myself that this probably isn't always the case in nature sooooo we set up a styrofoam box with a water pan for humidity and a heatlamp and I have nine little eggies sitting in there all cozy as we speak. We have a thermometer in with them and it fluctuates between 97 and 102* (still trying to figure out just the perfect height for the bulb). My husband is as big a sucker as I am and is already calling them our little babies. :) Keeping fingers crossed...

Spring has arrived~

Just walked by my front garden and noticed 15 "mystery" bulbs I stuck in the ground last fall have sprouted! These are misc. bulbs I've saved over the years and have no concept what they might be. Can't wait to see what pops up~ I love a good plant mystery! :)
The bluebirds and robins have arrived. We have a little flock of 8-10 robins that's been coming by to bathe in our little pond.
Time to get my veggie seeds started, the ground tilled, and the greenhouse built!
It's sure going to be fun watching Spring and all the changes it brings for the first time here.

Turkeys!!!

Woo hoo! Had our first turkeys of the season show up today. Two big ol' males strutting their stuff for six females out in our big field. They kept answering Dave's turkey call but never came in. They roosted in the pines a few hundred ft. from the house so we hope they'll come in for seed and a drink from our pond for breakfast. Hunting season begins in a few days so maybe they've come to hide out?