Sights from around Crooked Acres.
We’re growing a few pumpkins this year. So far they seem to be doing well!
I just cannot get over how gorgeous our tomatoes are looking this year.
The other day, Fred was complaining about how the okra plants looked nice, but he hadn’t seen any blooms. We pondered whether it was due to the amount of nitrogen he’d added when planting them. Then I actually went and looked closely at the plants – there are about 20 okra pods out there, ready to be picked! I guess we need to pay closer attention.
If you’ve never had Sungold cherry tomatoes, you are missing out. They’re our favorites. Fred’s stepmother ate so many of them she developed an allergy!
Unripe Sungolds – and Rupert. He likes to keep me company.
We grew cantaloupes again this year. I’m not a cantaloupe lover, they’re all for Fred. Unfortunately Fred reports that they don’t have much flavor. That doesn’t stop him from eating them, though.
We’ve got a few watermelons chugging along, but I don’t think we’re going to get many – they’re at the end closest to a huge pecan tree, and they get a lot of shade during the day. Note to self: Next year, plant the watermelons where they get lots of sun, dummy.
Gracie’s fang is cracking me UP.
They get a little excited when they know it’s almost snack time.
The Rock Star is fabulous, no?
Mister Duck, keeping an eye on me.
One of the roosters, high-stepping. He’s got places to go!
“Where’s our cookies, lady?!”
Do you see that wallow the pigs dug out for themselves? There was nothing but flat dirt there when we brought them home, and now there’s a wallow big enough to (barely) contain both of them. Fred was getting pretty irate because he’d go out there and fill up their water trough, and then they’d dump it onto the ground to soften it and make digging easier. They’re industrious, I’ll give ’em that.
“Is time for another cookie?”
We have a turtle in our pond! He’s a pretty big one, too. I tried to get closer to get a better picture, but he saw me coming and sank out of sight.
Eating grass and watching the chickens.
Goofy boy.
Mama Silkie and her chicks. Have I mentioned that Silkies are really good mothers? At least ours is. She keeps those chicks around her until they’re practically ready to have their own baby chicks.
“Youuuuu want to giiiiiiive me anoooooother treeeeeat…”
We have two Americauna hens. They lay blue eggs, which I love, but they don’t lay very often.
I’m not sure what that black hen in the front did, but judging by the reaction of the hen next to her and behind her, it was rude and uncalled-for.
This is the watering “station” I set up near one of the pumps. I fill it with fresh water every day. It’s definitely being used, I need to set up the game cam and see what’s using it. I’ve seen Rupert and Maxi drinking from the lid, and actually saw a squirrel there once, too. We like to keep the entire animal kingdom hydrated (note that Rupert is still following me around.)
“I was laying in my bed, all sound asleep, and Kennebec jumped on me and bit my butt.”
“It HURT!”
“So I cried, and that lady came and picked him up and told him he was a rotten, stinky little man, and she told him not to do it again. She’s RIGHT. He IS rotten and stinky!”
“So I came out on the big cat tree in the front room to get away from him, and he went off and pouted. Ha! Ha! Rotten BOY!”
The Taters are very much enjoying having the run of the house, especially the front room.
Stompers on the small cat tree.
And on the window sill, checking out the front porch.
Four Taters on the cat tree.
Stompers checking out the hammock.
He thought it was pretty sweet.
I love how he’s got three feet on the edge of the hammock.
He figured out how to get down off the cat tree without throwing himself off of it five feet from the ground, so that’s good.
The bigger kittens decided to stay up on top of the cat tree and fight.
“I’ll just stay here where it’s safe.”
“Lady, good lord. These feet are HORRIFYING. Have you never heard of a pedicure?!”
::thlurrrp::
I love how Dingwall Scotty stops what he’s doing, standing there right in the middle of their dish, to see what’s going on.
Sungold’s hogging all the cat toys.
Wellington looks so expectant, doesn’t he?
I swear he looks like a little baby bear, hanging there.
Hello, Joe, whattayaknow?
“I know it’s snack time, is what I know.”
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Previously
2011: “Ya know, I was just LAYING here taking a snooze, and before I knew it, these little monsters had latched on!”
2010: Random animal pics.
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: They’ll be fine, they’ll be fine, they’ll be fine, they’ll be fine…