The two eggs above have an interesting story. The egg on the left is a turkey egg. turkey eggs are very large compared to chicken eggs (normally). Today, Marvin found the chicken egg on the right. It is actually much larger than the turkey egg! We had it for breakfast this morning - double yoke.
I have been told that pigs may kill chickens if they can get to them. Obviously that doesn't happen on the farm. This picture shows our hens eating out of the pig feeder. I guess nobody told the pigs this.
Burner is the little gray dog on the left. She is a yorkie shitzu cross and is almost 9 years old. Tuck is now 5 months old and is a yorkie poodle cross. They keep us in line in the house.
We had a surprise last evening. When checking the egg stand at the bottom of the driveway, we found a delivery of fruit trees that had been dropped at our gate. We were expecting them next week, but they were shipped without notice. Marvin has his days very full with planned work on the farm, but he always seems to land on his feet when something unexpected is thrown at him. I swear I don't know how. He somehow got them all planted today as well as all the rest of his list. They are beautiful trees with leaves and blossoms intact. The other 140 fruit trees we planted throughout the last few months are blooming right now too. What a beautiful sight!
Life (and wildlife) is so beautiful this time of year. Yesterday I was coming back from town. As I crossed over the Nacimiento River, I looked down and saw the cutest mallard duck standing like a statue on a rock in the middle of the water. It looked like a photo op, but of course I didn't have my camera with me.
Another couple of miles and there was a scroungy looking coyote next to the freeway trying to find his lunch. There is a large population of coyote in our area. Unfortunately they can be very pesty to farmers and ranchers. They love to steal chickens and other barnyard animals and harass pets. On the good side, they help keep the squirrel and varmits population in check.
When I crossed over the San Antonio River, a beautiful little doe and fawn were standing in the water having a refreshing drink.
Tonight, Marvin and I went for a ride in the Kabota on the back 300 acres. Across from our house, there are 6 elk living in a little strip of property between the road and their livestock fence. Although there is a valley between us, they are at the same elevation as we are so they are really very close. Everything is so green right now that the light colored elk stand out beautifully.
After we went through the back gate, a ground owl flew across the big sandy valley looking for mice and gophers.
Up and over another knoll and we spotted a herd of 6 deer. Of course, they took off running when they saw us.
Over to the left a very large red tailed hawk was sitting on a fence post.
Little yellow wild daisies were popping their heads up and searching for the sun.
Life is good.
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