Monday, May 3, 2010

Spring work on the farm

We killed chickens the other day. Ron is about to put another flopping one in the cone to kill,
while three or four headless ones are awaiting Hannah to put them in the scalder.
Macrae wishes he had Neo's job of cutting off the feet, but it'll
be a few more years until he gets a knife.
For some reason, Hannah is real tickled to pluck these
chickens...

Our new work. We had these rows of corn planted the first week of April, ....but .... the ..... CROWS!!! Thus the scarecrow, at the end of the row, whose face has very large fangs we're hoping are very scary. It works, when she can be out there when it's not raining.
Maybe this last rain will bring this second batch of corn up.

I don't know if you can strain to see, but the peas, butter beans, & snap beans are up!
Here is 'Nancy,' by the first row of the garden. This row
is flowers for Trey Riley's wedding this July.
There are buds on the cactus zinnias because I
planted them at the end of Feb. at the house in
seedling trays!

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