Yesterday when I opened the barn in the morning, two of the eight turkeys were in the chicken pen.  They must have just flown over the shorter dividing fence.  The chickens all seemed fine so I removed the fencing.  I had worried that the turkeys might pick on the smaller chickens, but it doesn't seem to be a problem.  I'm very pleased they can all get outside easily now.

 

 

 

I harvested my potatoes this morning.  I had planted some red, some white & russet.  Some are quite large and some very small, but all look good!  I didn't get as many as I had hoped for although I'm sure that's my fault.  I did grow them in a wire cage, above ground and quit adding soil and potato starts before I should have.  Things just got busy...oh well:)  We will enjoy eating these & then I'll head down the road to Coad Potatoes and pick up a 100 sack for the winter.  We love our taters!



It's hard to tell, but that's me (Wendy) standing next to my (now) queen-less hive.

We had just opened it in the hope of pulling honey, but found instead - not enough honey and what's worse.....no larve or eggs.  The queen does slow down laying this time of year, but still expected to see some eggs/larve.  First we saw some drone cells, which I didn't expect to see this time of year, as the drones will be dying off now or be kicked out of the hive before winter.

Then, we found the queen cells.  2, maybe 3 queen cups on the bottom of one frame.

Now I have to decide whether to re-queen quickly with a proven layer, or let the bees finish a queen.  The queen cells weren't capped, so my guess is it would be another 2 weeks before she'd start laying.

Yikes!  time to talk to a veteran bee-keeper!

Still it was fun:) with my dear friend and bee expert Laurie Cellar!