What a week this has been! Last Saturday, after picking up some homegrown strawberries and honey from the bees of our friends, Carson and Jean, we spent the afternoon working in the garden. That evening we checked our bluebird box where a bluebird couple was raising a batch of 4 new babies. As Debbie [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bluebirds’
Back to the rhythm of ordinary
Posted in animals, food, garden, projects, vegetables, tagged bluebirds, community center, gardening, herb garden, honey, local produce, rat snakes, small town homestead, strawberries, vegetable gardening on May 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Gardening with bluebirds
Posted in animals, garden, tagged bluebird babies, bluebirds, bluebirds houses, gardening, organic gardening, raised beds on May 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We’re growing bluebirds along with our vegetables this year! The fence of our vegetable garden runs right beside one of our bluebird houses.
Sometime between Sunday night and Wednesday morning the 3 blue eggs in the nest hatched and we now have 3 featherless pink bluebirds! They sleep with their very large mouths open and ready. [...]
The bird feeders
Posted in animals, tagged animals, bird feeder, birds, birdseed, birdwatching, bluebirds, feeding the birds, goodthoughts, pretty kitty, simple life, simplify, squirrels, sustainable life on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We finally filled up our bird feeders today. The wind last week broke one, but the others survived. (Notice how the wind peeled the lattice off the deck. I fixed that today, too.)
The big feeder sits outside our den window, so we watch the birds in the morning after breakfast while we’re drinking our tea. [...]

