Briarwood is especially busy this time of year. Gardens are tilled, reorganized, updated and planted. Each year our briarpatch is more tame than the year before. Bill and I have been hard at work - and I have the aching muscles to prove it! The area around our green house is shaping up beautifully and our "kitchen garden" is being planted there. I have also added a tea rose garden and in just a few days my longed-for wisteria lodge will be in place. The production garden has been moved to a different location where it is fenced in and Ellie, our darling goat, cannot eat the tender plants to her heart's content.
Princess and Squirt, the horse and pony, are free to run in the pasture all day and munch the new grass. They love being brushed as they shed their heavy winter coats. Then, of course, after all the brushing they have to go roll in the mud again! We "lovingly" call that their facial mud pack!
Quincy and Rawley suddenly look like little lions and I am reminded that I need to arrange an appointment with the groomer.
BUT, the most fun is the arrival of the chicks. I was in the post office Monday and the building was filled with the little "peeps" of the little chicks. Not long after, Bill arrived with a little travel box carrying our 12 babies. This year the chickens will get to live in a "chicken caravan". It is darling and if I was a chicken, it is where I would want to live.
Our joys would be more complete if we could share these wonders with our wonderful granddaughter, Margaret. However, since she is miles away, we will use the wonders of technology. Margaret, dear little Margaret, these videos are for you. Enjoy.
Here are the little chicks.
Here are Quincy and Rawley. Pat did not want to be a movie star.
Here is little Ellie. She is getting old and does not spend quite so much time stalking cats.
"All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all."
