Blackberry winter and blessing's

Friday we got 50 Freedom Ranger chicks in the mail. This is my first time raising this breed of meat chicken but so far they seem to have more personality than the broilers. They are no afraid of us and that is a big plus as I am always afraid that the broilers will smother each other are break a leg when they pile up on each other. Kenny Ray and I mowed grass most of the day yesterday for the chickens yesterday on the ground in New Carlisle where we raise the chickens and then drove down to the farm to mow the grass around the cabin it was starting to look like a widow woman lived there again. Kenny Ray and went for a walk trying to pick a place for his tree house project as well stopping to feed the fish in the pond. On the way down to the farm we stopped to get something to eat in Xenia and ran into a young man that I hired when he was 18 and just out of high school. I say young man but he is 31 and has a family now. That was one of the things I always enjoyed was helping young men get a start in life.

As of this morning no chicken or turkey death's and that is a good thing with the range in temps we have had the past couple weeks. They are putting on weight nicely.

I had to cover Tomatoes again last night as the weathermen where calling for a possible frost.

With the passing of Blackberry winter this weekend. I am going to get the rest of the garden in. The old folks always told me to expect a cold spell when the Blackberry's are in bloom and it always seems to happen, even Dad believed in Blackberry winter. The weather is funny the weathermen where calling for heavy rains this past week here. My house in the city we did not get a quarter of inch of rain. My farm is about and hour's drive and they got a good 2 inches of rain and my pond came up a good 4 inches and is at the brink over going over the spillway. I used to worry the pond would never hold water and now I worry that it will run over and wash out the dam. I am truly blessed and like the pond my cup run'th over. Not with money just simple pleasure of life.