Sod

Back at our house, I made a roaming pen out of poultry netting and green stakes. It works great to give the chickens more room to graze.

They've done a superb job of clearing out the weeds. Even the edges of the walkway have been carefully and fully weeded.

The baby chicks are thriving, and starting to show more feathering on the wings. They will be beautiful birds, and I hope they have unique markings so we can tell them apart.

Karen and I finished all the transplanting, and we have more radicchio than we'll know what to do with. I didn't take a picture of it, but the lettuce starts in the cold frame are really doing well. It's about time to plant those in the ground. I plan to put some in my newly weeded and de-bugged beds.

Yesterday was the "nice" day this week. Instead of incessent rain like the rest of the week, including today, it was only cloudy. So we tried to get some work done. Early in the afternoon, I pruned the grapes some, and planted another row of peas (Paso). Buddy worked on cutting up the apple wood. That will be just the ticket when we get the pizza oven built. In the meantime, we'll stack it and let it age. Then Rick C showed up, and said he had access to some nice sod. We decide to use it as a path in the flowerbed. Here Rick and Buddy are digging up the irises. They badly needed to be thinned anyway.

Rick runs the tiller lightly over the area.

Rick bravely went and got the sod. He was the only one who hadn't had any beer yet, a situation he had been hoping to remedy. In this shot he's wheelbarrowing rolls of sod into the work area.

Rick lays the sod.

And becomes... the Mud Monster!