I signed up for Pinterest not too long ago and haven't done much with it although I can see its appeal for noting interesting things you find. Their weekly email showed up yesterday, which I would usually ignore but the first thing listed was a link to a video about the Pothole Gardener. I love this kind of stuff. Thank you Pinterest for actually recommending something that I'd enjoy.
So today I was cleaning up around the front, mostly removing weeds from the sidewalk, and I decided to do something about this annoying obsolete access hole with a broken concrete cap and random wires for who knows what.
Inspired by the video I made my own little succulent garden in the hole with some random plants I had from other projects.
Something's been going on with the chickens lately. We've lost three in the last week for some unknown reason.The first one was Butter, the Buff Orpington that was the sole survivor of the original three. I noticed she hadn't laid in a couple days so then became more aware that I hadn't noticed her out and about. So I checked in the coop and there she was dead on the floor. The next day or the day after I found one of the Americaunas dead on the coop floor, this time with what looked like some of her intestines having come out of her vent. Very strange.
Then coming home from a couple days away I found a second Americauna dead on the coop floor but, like the first, with no evidence of anything wrong. This leaves only two Americaunas, both of which I keep expecting to find dead every morning. Instead I've found soft shelled eggs that appear to have been laid while on the roost. I've seen one of them in the nest as if to lay but no eggs in the last few days. I'm not sure what's happening. Maybe a virus. There doesn't seem to be much that I can do except hope that these last two overcome whatever's been ailing the flock.
