Sits on a tomatillo plant leaf

J didn’t grow tomatillos last year (a member of the physalis family of plants) but he had grown it successfully several years running. We make tomatillo salsa with the purple green fruits.

Took on the challenge of raising the drifting and damaged duck house out of the goose pond

Today Jeremy repaired and refloated the house – well done J . The duck house was one of the first items that J built when we moved here nearly 8 years ago.

For five weeks the little grey hen sat on two goose eggs. They didn’t hatch and into the sixth week J took her off the eggs and put her back with the paddock flock.

The goats, in the paddock, had repeatedly damaged the netting around the chicken run as they tried to nibble at the bark of the tree just out of reach. We had found the chickens “outside” a couple of times including the day that the grey hen returned to the paddock run. Although we fixed the fencing the grey hen had disappeared. How sad. But…….this morning she came out from under the chicken house to fetch some scattered corn. It seems as though she is making a nest on the ground and will continue to be broody until she hatches some eggs. I’m just glad that she wasn’t taken by a fox!

Filled the duck pond

And created large puddles in nearby fields

I noticed this butterfly sitting on a dahlia this morning. It was cold and drizzly weather and the butterfly was motionless

It’s nearly midday and still cold and damp. The butterfly was in the same place

And just now it flew away. Good luck butterfly