Chicks

I'm really surprised that there are chicks. After this hen getting off the nest a few days ago and the eggs were all cold. But there are some hatching! I guess hens know what they're doing.

The hen on the left is the one who sets on all the eggs all these weeks. The one on the right is  her chickie helper. She will take some of the chicks after hatching and raise them. They all hang out together. Which is a good thing, so they both can protect the little ones.

Can you see the little black chick? They are so stinkin' cute when they are so little. I just hope they are all girls. I don't need another rooster again.

Some sunflowers for you...

I went to my daughter Abby's today. She had planted these sunflowers and now they are so tall and full of beautiful flowers. Aren't they amazing? I just love sunflowers. I took these with my phone.

Flowers, a ripe tomato and a baby!

 I was picking zinnias yesterday morning for market and put the little buckets on the big bee hive. I just thought it was pretty.

And our first ripe tomato! It's a little bitty one, but the first! I hope there will be many many more and a whole lot bigger. No matter where I get tomatoes in summer, they never taste as good as my own.

Today when I got home, I went out to feed the chickens and get them put up for the night. I heard a baby chick. So I went to look and sure enough, under Miss Broody hen, there was a little wet chickie butt poking up in the air beside her! So I guess all was not lost when she got up off that nest full of eggs and went to sit on another nest of eggs. I thought for sure all the eggs would go bad. But we have at least 1 little chickie baby so far!!