I Like Thursday #60

Oh my when the weather warms up doesn't it seem like time just gets away from you?  Welcome to my fast and quick I like Thursday post #60!  Thanks LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color for encouraging us to find things throughout the week that we like/love.

Jeff used to say that it wasn't true spring until the oaks started to bud.  Well the oaks are budding, which is pretty early in my experience of the 8 years I have lived out here on the farm.  I mentioned my rhubarb is coming up!  Had to share a pic of it, it makes me smile every time I look at it. 

 I should move the leaf litter out, but I have a fear of a late frost and it will help protect it a bit. 

My Daffodils and a volunteer Hyacinth makes me smile.  See how green everything is already?  I need to do some weeding, but it has been kind of windy and chilly as of late.

A couple of I like posts ago I mentioned I have things show up unexpectedly in my yard, like a bicycle planter.  I found something to fill it.

I love pansies, and the hanging basket was the perfect size.  Pansies are so resilient also.  The bicycle planter actually was blown off the berm the other day, and the pansy basket rolled across the yard.  *Sigh* there is a lot to be said for wind breaks.  So the bicycle planter has been moved closer to the house for the time being and the pansies survived their ordeal.

Speaking of unexpected visitors this guy showed up by my chicken house I keep my babies in.

His hat is broken, and he needs new paint.  Maybe I will fix him up.  He is such a happy guy.

I have projects started here and there and some just in the planning stages which means I have the materials but haven't started, much like my quilts.  I loved this can that freeze dried strawberries came in and decided it would be an awesome planter.  I got some clear contact paper and finally covered it. 

Not perfect, but done is better than nothing.  Now to figure out what I am going to put in it.

I like my new flock of chicks but they are at that not so cute stage.  The other day my daughter was at a store nearby called Family, Farm, and Home and mentioned that they had "old" chicks for 50 cents a piece, and they were Golden Laced Wyadottes.

This is what they will look like when they are full growns

 I have Silver Laced Wyandottes and they are pretty chickens, but they are kind of stubborn at times, not as sweet as my Buff Orpingtons.

See she is a pretty girl.  I thought 50 cents though, that is a pretty good deal.  So I added 10 more chicks to the flock.  It is funny because they are still chicks, even though they are labeled as "old". 

Hopefully they won't need therapy months from now due to the "old" label  They have tiny wing and tail feathers.  They make me laugh, and smile. They are almost big enough to allow them to venture out into their run. 

About 3 years ago Jeff and I took a couple of trees down that were too near the house, and we dug up some volunteer trees growing in the yard, and planted them.  I swear they were maples.  But this year this is what they look like.

They look like pussy willows almost the little catkins.  But I know it is a maple.  I am calling it the mystery tree right now, and wondering what the heck is going on. 

Finally the book I just finished was The Darkling Bride by Laura Andersen.  I will say once I got into it I didn't want to stop reading. 

This was an oops download, I had selected another book to read, but this one downloaded instead.  I am happy it did.  I am now reading the original one that I wanted to read, and again a great story which is keeping me enthralled.

Now head over to LeeAnna's and check out the other I Like Thursday posts.