This is the last egg my hens laid before starting their winter break. I used it to do an egg wash on some rolls. Now I will see how long I can go on the dried and powdered eggs I processed when the chickens were in full production. I won’t use powdered egg for an egg wash, but they work fine for pancakes and meatloaf.
This pumpkin didn’t get any special treatment or cute presentation, I just cut it in half and put it out for the chickens like an instant bowl. Chickens don’t care, they dived right in.
I’ve read that pumpkin is a natural dewormer for chickens, and although I am becoming more and more suspect of “internet knowledge”, my chickens do like pumpkin, and they seem to digest it better than watermelon or cucumber. Maybe I can freeze some for the large part of the year when fresh pumpkins are not available. Or do something to canned pumpkin to make it less of a mess. Hm.
I thought maybe the hibiscus was done for the season, but it produced another bloom! I took the picture with the morning light shining through from behind.
The Shasta Daisy also geared up and is showing off a single bloom.
Sophie the cat is checking out Taco the Faverolle hen. Our neighbor’s cats also come to watch the chickens, and the chickens watch them. Thank goodness for strong hardware cloth between the two.
Yes, I spend too much time on Pinterest. I saw harvest sculptures that looked like elaborate dresses on mannequins, but made of wheat or grasses. I don’t have wheat, but after cutting down my over grown artemisia, I had something with beautiful texture and color, and had it in abundance. I also had a “mannequin”, or more specifically, a woman’s shape made out of chickenwire from last Halloween’s ghosts. So I tucked the artemisia stems into the poultry wire to form the skirt, then trimmed some of the post oak trees and used the branches to build the bodice and leaves to accent the waist.
This is going to be an evolving sculpture; as I trim trees or tend greenery, the choice bits will get added to my green lady. I’m thinking I can keep augmenting her dress through the winter.
