The grass and weeds are starting up again from the rain we had a week ago, so last evening I decided to mow the 34 chicken run, thinking that if the grass were shorter the chickens might find more bugs to eat. While mowing, I spotted 6 little brown eggs in a neat pile in the grass. Production has started!
The eggs were very small. I am hoping they are just demo eggs, otherwise they will be selling as two-fers. I gave them to Janet the GP (Great Pyrenees) and she thought they were fine snacks.
This morning my goal was mowing the front and back yard, which is always an adventure. The word yard is generous, it is actually just pasture with a fence around it. Last year I bought several bags of Weed & Feed to help the grass along; the unopened bags are still in the kennel building. As usual, I am very good at planning and poor on execution.
After I finished mowing the front yard, I went to open the gate to the back and found one of God's creatures making a home on the gate. She posed for her picture, above. I don't know what kind of spider she is, but I get them every year. They get absolutely huge, lay a sac of eggs and leave it in a corner of the web in late summer, then deconstruct the web and disappear.
Lots of grasshoppers out this year; also some pretty neat double-decker winged dragon flies that look like bi-planes.
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