As the sun came up we noticed chickens out in their yard. Uh oh. We forgot to put the chickies away last night. Actually, we don't put them away, we just close to the door, but it's important. That could have been free dinner for a fox. But they made it. It's by the grace of God we have any chickens this morning.
With chickens running around at dawn, the girls filled their food and water and the gathered eggs. One had frozen solid and split.
There were seven eggs. Yesterday we had five and today we have seven eggs! These are big numbers! The books say that egg production is all about light and we sure are getting a good demonstration. The temperature dropped to 12ºF overnight, but egg production is up. Praise God for the sun! Friday we celebrate crossing over into a ten hour day.
With the pots sterilized, I transplanted until I ran out of pots. Those lettuce and cabbage were full of healthy looking roots. With plants and dirt all over the kitchen, I used warm water to moisten the soil so it was pretty pleasant.
The plants have plenty of room to grow now and the bench is big enough for all of them. These little plants are only a month old and looking so good. It occurs to me that I should get some more lettuce started because a month from now it will might be warm enough to put them in the garden with some black landscape fabric to warm up the soil.
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