Easter week in the country

 

I think this week's full moon is the Worm Moon.

Our Easter week is going great, and hope yours is too.

Mr. Front Porch surprised me and brought home two camellia bushes, and two azalea bushes! Plus a mandevilla.

Our first summer here was last summer, we called it our "practice summer". There were no gardens established, so we had to start from nothing. We had no idea where things would grow best. But, garden we did....and it was hit or miss. We got lucky with alot of it. 

Got the "maters" in this week

This year we have moved our "maters" and red peppers gardens to a second kitchen garden, and gave that previous whole kitchen garden over to strictly onions. They are almost 8 inches high, and doing great!

Oh, how I LOVE ONIONS!

Mr. Front Porch got the green beans in today, and we have squash seedlings up and growing. We've never had much luck with squash seeds, but last year bought plants already started....and those yielded alot of squash for us!

baby squash

"Taters"  and sweet taters did great last year in the big garden, so we guessed lucky there.

We decided to hold off on planting bushes until  THIS spring, and we would kind of know where things grow best. We did grow lots of flowers last summer, if you remember last summer's posts---you probably remember me posting LOTS OF my "old maids", my zinnias! LOL

....and they gave us LOTS of seeds! yay!

will be planting these soon!

 So now we have these camellia and azalea bushes, I was so excited to get them!

I love the scarlet blooms! These are their last blooms of their season. They will bloom again around Thanksgiving and through Christmas and all winter next year.

Let's go for a little walk-about......

Mr. Front Porch got the camellias in a few days ago, just perfect timing for the hard rains that came right after. He will get the azalea bushes in this weekend. 

the pansies are loving the spring weather!

a big feast bowl for the chickens! I see rice, scrambled eggs, a hunk of cabbage,  sprinkles of hamburger, vegetables, corn, they LOVE pieces of spaghetti----I think they think it's WORMS! LOL!
and they love watermelon, especially on hot summer days

of course, they eat regular feed too, but they love their supper bowl "treats". They are spoiled ladies! LOL

go get it, ladies!

they love the sunshine and the tall green grass!

this is Rose. I got her and her sister Blanche last Mothers Day. We lost poor Blanche to a snake, but Rose has done great!

this is Big Goldie, she's the "leader of the pack". Or should I say the leader of the FLOCK? LOL She's bossy and keeps everyone in line, and doing what they are supposed to do. She thinks she is a Rooster! ha ha

Let's see, what else is going on?

this one is waiting for water, to take a bath!

so we filled the birdbaths.......

and immediately, here they come! Bathtime, y'all!

and Mrs. Bluebird is feathering her nest, getting ready for babies!

our fig tree is sprouting out. Does anyone like figs?

.........and Barn Kitty Callie follows me wherever I go.......twisting and turning herself around my feet.

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So glad you came by to our country place today, hope your week is going great!