"Do You Take This Chicken. . ."

Life is moving right along now.  I have the very first flower on my
Fuchsia bush.  Plants that nearly died of powdery mildew did
make it back to the land of the living after treatment was given.

About the chickens.  Seems Mr. Natural has a suitor.  Yep.  You
read correctly.  One of the chickens is in love with him--even
tried to get in his truck.  Follows him everywhere making
inconsolable distress noises and acting really ditzy.  The power
of hormones.  She was the first.  Now he has others making
ga-ga chicken eyes at him.  Well, they understand he is a male,
but a rooster he isn't.  So now he spends even more time
rounding them up, giving them treats.   And overnight, they
none like me.  I'm the competition.  So I steer clear of
interacting  with them.  Like, he was the one that brought these
chickens home to be "natural" chickens--right?  Nothing natural
about these chickens.  He even buys them grapes and blueberries.
I am serious.  Natural chickens don't receive this kind of
treatment.  I told him he was leading them on.  He just wants
them to have optimal nutrition.  That's his story.  He buys Daisy
cat fresh red salmon.  So do I--but mine comes in a can and
states it is cat food.  His is high dollar people food.  Since I
can no longer eat fish or shellfish, he buys it for Daisy. 

This hormonal thing is a problem.  I hope he gets the shed
moved soon.  It continues to rain sometime every day.  The ground
has stayed very wet.  We keep hoping for some dry weather.
Not yet.

I did get to eat my one squash.  I am planting more tomorrow.
I'm determined if nothing else.  I am planting more tomato plants,
squash, eggplant, zucchini.  I'll wait 2 weeks before planting
the fall garden. 

All for now--

Kate Thorn