Robin Red Breast has arrived

I saw the first robin yesterday.

Is spring here yet? Um no. Because it was literally slating for a short while. Covering the windows in ice that almost immediately melted back off. But the robins did not care. They know change is on the way.

I tried to take a photo of the red breasted birds busy in the field looking for worms. But the birds would not sit still for a picture. What are they like? So you have a cardinal instead. You can hear the robins in the trees though AND the red-winged blackbirds – they have arrived too.

And YES! There are worms in the field now. When I first took these fields from chemical to organic farming there were no worms.

No self respecting robin would be out there looking for worms in the old days – the ground smelt funny.

But now the robins are out there amongst the emerging organic wheat eagerly pulling reluctant worms out of the healing earth. The soil is regenerating.

This image was through the roof of the glasshouse yesterday. Icy rain melting. I would like to print this onto metal – I think it would be a great image on aluminium (out of my budget though)!

I am still on a mission to find our old friends the lost bloggers. Many of whom heard our call and checked into the comments on Sunday! Pop over and say Hi if you have a moment – you know how I love it when you all chat with each other in the Lounge Of Comments. Blogging is about community for the Fellowship.

As I wander through the blogs of our old friends we must not forget Kate who does the most amazing things with fabric. She has never been lost. And has been visiting the Lounge of Comments all this time. She sews, quilts and everything else. I can’t sew. I can’t think inside out. So I sew vicariously through Kate.

Yesterday I moved the feed barrels into the empty duck house. It is now a feed shed. The ducks have not lived in there since I left last summer. They just hang out by their pond and if the weather gets really horrible they go into the barn. John never locked them up while I was away so they kind of lost their way.

SO, now all my drums of feed are in there plus a makeshift table that allows me to mix the feed easily.

We have not seen hide nor hair of The Bastard Mink in years now so hopefully they do not come back.

The big teacher pigs are over to the right of this scene, so if there was sound you would hear their monster grunts as they anticipate their diet food. (I call them the teacher pigs because they were on a Teaching Farm for so long!). That Jude is HUGE. And FreeBee spends most of her time lying down – just too big I think. So, most of their food is vegetables and sprouts.

Have a lovely day.

Many of my online students have snow days today – that weather on the West Coast is pretty wild so I have a late start! YAY!

Oh and I found a pig man who is going to sell me a couple of piglets. (plonkers – no names). John has all three of his children living in the area now and times are hard for young families in this economy so I intend to grow as much food as possible. And feed those kids the best food possible.

Love Celi