It appears the Kennebec and Pontiac Red potatoes are ready for harvesting. The tops are starting to yellow so I will be digging them tomorrow.
Some bad news on the chicken front. It seems as if one of the girls is a guy. Ginger has started growing the red 'thingy' right above its' beak and the DW tells me she saw/heard it crowing the other day while she was weeding. I thought I heard it last weekend, but with the alpacas next door making all sorts of weird noises, I had hoped it was one of them, and not one the chicks. So of the four chicks Molly (a friend of our neighbor and a friend of ours come to think of it) hatched for me, it appears that only one is a rooster. Not bad if you stop to think about it. I mean, think of the families you know that have all boys, or all girls or half and half. I could have come away with as many as four roosters instead of just one. We'll probably not eat all the eggs just three hens will lay anyway (but we'll try).
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