"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."
- John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
RIGHT NOW, and then again tomorrow and then again the next day and on it goes day after day,
1/2 OF THE WORLD lives on LESS THAN 2 DOLLARS each day.
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Do all you can and don't worry about the odds against you. Wield the miracle of life's energy, never worrying whether we fail, concerned only that whether we fail or succeed we do so with all our might. That's all we need to know to feel certain that all our force of diligent effort is worth our while on Earth.
Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Yet another catch up post

 coop cleaning
 nominated for teacher appreciation week
 free-ranging chickens


 coop cleaning
 our 4 call ducks
 transplanted rhubarb
 more free rangers

 call ducks again...so cute
 more coop cleaning - weather was so good that we got it done early
 some of our Muscovies
 Laslo and Gandolph
 circling the house

 Big pretty boy

 circling to the back yard
 York still doing well
 hanging in the back yard
 Mim's track season

 this meet she ran the open 100, 200 & 400 but this year her best race has been part of the 4X400-hopefully her relay team qualifies for State



 last weekend we went kayaking out on McDill osprey
 goose on her nest
 another goose with a turtle sunning
 Arthur & his girl Victoria
 our new pumpkin patch
All the pumpkins, sizes range from pie pumpkins all the way to supposed 300lb pumpkins, have been planted into the patch.
See all the comfrey and tiger lillies? (planted by the previous owner) The goal is for the pumpkins to grow over all the invasive species that have taken over the wetland area. The pumpkins do this by growing like monsters, so large and massive, that they prevent the invasive species from undergoing photosynthesis, thus killing them out.
Once the pumpkins have been established for about a month or 6 weeks, we will remove the poles and netting. The space on both sides of the pumpkin patch will eventually be all pumpkins, which by the way are annuals so they won't self seed. See the brown ground to the left of the patch on the third photo? That is where we planted the pumpkins last year and they killed out all the other vegetation, thus giving us the idea for "Operation Invasive Control" We will keep you posted.
 our newly planted bleeding heart plants

hostas transplanted away from the free-ranging chickens. I cut grass for the first time during this summer season and I only had to cut half the lawn since the fowl had the other half well grazed.

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