morning has broken and it's green

the light if not the sun is coming up
i look out the windows and all i can see is spring green leaves
the studio is again a treehouse

yesterday right before i put everyone to bed,
i let falstaff out to graze
he's starting to get used to it
first off of course he has to run down to the day pen to check on the girls
but i herd him back and get him settled enough to graze

it does my eyes good to watch him
when the new girl finishes this hatch she is going to learn to graze too
(she does know how to graze but i mean learn to stay close to me while doing it.......for protection)

falstaff is funny, he's big but out of the pens he doesn't look as big as normal
since i been letting him out to graze he's calming down
and i make sure i touch his back every day when i go to take him out
he'll come around eventually, i am sure by end of summer

bernie has stopped work on the pens, partly cause of other stuff and partly cause of his sister coming, we put the money into stuff for her visit

we'll be back to it soon
we need a lot more 1/4 and 1/2 inch hardware cloth
some more wood and some plywood and the clear roof panels
i think it will be chickens going out first
since bernie cleaned them yesterday, and put fresh hay and some bedding
they made a nest!
and they are laying in it
so that's good
no one is sleeping in it
but we find the eggs

and i think lilli is laying again
one of them is
either her or phoebe
i think even cleo laid a tiny marble egg
i don't WANT cleo to lay however

she was funny last night
when i went into the pen to start to let them out
she came running up for her neck to be scratched

it's stuff like that which makes all the work worthwhile
all the icy cold days
the falls
the frozen buckets
who knew?