This last couple of weeks have been a blur. I am tying to get things wrapped up before Winter officially gets here and I simply don’t have enough time in the day to do everything. I am covering night shifts at work and they are random so it is taking its toll on me. I had to work last weekend so the the kids took our lamb/cull sheep herd to Hermiston for us. It took them two loads and there are 68 sheep over there now.
I still need to get over there and finish fencing in that new pasture so we can take the pregnant ewes over. Mr Rainman is going to help me next weekend and we will get the fence up and get the sheep over there at the same time. I have several random nights this week and a two day class to teach at work so my fence building days are limited.
My Jerusalem artichokes are doing very well! They finally formed flowers and the bees are loving them. We are still trying to decide where to put them permanently. A lot of it is going to stem height. I won’t really know how well they did until I dig them up. I am going to leave them alone as long as they have flowers on them. They are a great flower for the bees as it is incredibly late compared to everything else.
The pigeons have been taunting me. I have not had time to go out and work on thinning them out. We had five at the beginning of the year and there is probably over 40 now and I have only managed to kill eight. I came home and the entire roof of the barn peak was covered in pigeons. By the time I could take a picture, most of them had flown away. I have not forgotten about them! If I do nothing we could end up with a couple of hundred next year. They really are the rats of the sky.
Our flower bulbs came in the mail so I will need to get the right half of the front yard flower bed set up soon. The plan is to move the temporary fence, finish lining the inside of the area with small rocks and level off the area. I will dig and plant all of the bulbs on this one side then I am going to lay down a single layer of chicken wire directly onto the ground. This will keep our, digging to the earth core, border collie out of the flower bed. Hopefully, she will not see it as a challenge.
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