Showing posts with label oats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oats. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

Random pix

Our setting hen continues to diligently set on her eggs. Technically those eggs are due to hatch on Thursday, but I'm not entirely certain of her "official start date" so I could be off by a day or two. Chicken eggs take three weeks to hatch.


And we have another setting hen! This one is a Rhode Island Red and I believe she officially started setting about three days ago. Setting hens always seem to wedge themselves into the most inconvenient spots, but hey, whatever makes them comfortable I suppose. At least this lady is in the coop so I can shut her up safely at night.

Goodness, at this rate we're going to have chicks galore.

Here's one of our barn/shop cats, JJ, eating out of bowl Don made out of half a tankard.


It just struck me as funny, the kind of cat food bowls we have around here.


Peaceable kingdom.


Oats uncut...


And oats cut. This is a neighbor's field.


Don says I should limit the "amber waves of grain" photos on this blog, but gosh darn it's so beautiful during the time of harvest. I just can't resist.

It just makes me grateful for the abundance of food in this land, courtesy of your local hard-working farmers. Say a little prayer of thanksgiving for these folks.