The Almost Semi-Annual Egg Report

"In time take time while time doth last, for time is no time when time is past."
Anonymous

At long last, I shall take time today to blog. The summer was again a bblluuuuuurrr. Cliche though it is, it is unbelievable sometimes how time can go by so quickly. Though it was a fast and blurry summer, it was a good one. The garden was a bit better than last year - in general - and we had many, many beautiful days. Our lovely pond has been a delight in so many ways. It was refreshingly wonderful to swim in on our hot days. And the variety of wildlife it has attracted has been both intriguing and amusing. Choruses of loud bullfrogs, herons, egrets, little shorebirds we think might be willets, thousands of dragonflies and even a plump woodchuck who took up residence in the stonewall are among the many visitors to the pond this summer. Our new silver wyandotte layer hens have just started to lay their first eggs - tiny ones about a third the size of a normal egg. And our flock of six geese and eight ducks are very entertaining. Tom the turkey - a real survivor - is still with us! He very dutifully has taken the fourteen new geese and ducks under his wing - so to speak - and is lonely no more. (A little update is in order: shortly after my last blog about our one and only brown and white duck, she disappeared, leaving Tom all alone in the fowlyard except for the layer hens - and they don't count for him. It was a sad time for Tom. But all is well now.) That is all for now. It is still a bit too dry and there are a few plants I need to water. Next time, I'll tell a few Tom the Turkey Adventure Tales.