We are in the midst of finishing up this kitchen for the community as well as picking up pecans. Just keeping up with the wind which has done a tremendous job at taking down both pecans and leaves. We are definitely in the midst of fall. Temps have been low, even during the day. Stocking up for fire wood would be a good idea too.
The sun is just hitting the horizon these days at 6AM, it's a dark cold morning. We still have two horses foraging for food. We took a walk to the lower fields yesterday and there is stuff growing, though it was frozen in the little creek we have going from the pond through the irrigation gates. We didn't hit our deadline of getting a garage closed in. Then we can get in there and build a set of shelves and organize the place so we can do some work in there. The cats like it in there now, but unfortunately, so do the chickens.
We have a weird bunch of chickens this year. They have just expanded their foraging to the neighbors fields. Molli keeps them in line. We got one egg on about November 18, but nothing since. Since they are foraging, there is a good chance that they are laying somewhere. As the food wanes in the fields, we hope they will brood and lay in nests inside. I'm missing the rich orange yolks. Phil made a supermarket (organic brown) egg and our single egg for Thanksgiving. It was yellow vs. golden orange. Those pecans are amazing in the diet! The chickens follow behind the horses and eat the pecans they have stepped on.
The crows are here and in the overcast sky, there is an ominous sound of wings through the orchard and then you see these birds pluck a pecan and take it off to eat it on the ground. No cooperative tree shaking yet, there is too much available.
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