Works & Storms In Progress

Yep, the blog is going through a design change. The main content area was just too skinny for my liking.  So, I'm playing around with some layouts to find a best fit for the Smith's Creek Farm site.  We appreciate your patience during our construction phase.

Storm after storm after storm has tromped through our area the past week or so.  No damage at our place but Brady's truck took a beating during this week's hailstorm.  I quickly snapped this pic of our peonies before the winds took it away forever.  Wasn't so lucky with the snowball bush.

The 2011 garden is officially in the ground/mud.  Looks like we're experimenting with hydroponics, lol! If we can get anything to grow in this soupy Ohio soil it'll be a miracle.

While others celebrate (maybe "commemorate" is a better word) the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, we're staging our own reenactment right here on Smith's Creek Farm.  Our GC rooster has waged a vicious turf battle over the past couple weeks with our neighbor to the north's rooster.  Blood and feathers have been shed in this gruesome campaign but I think our rooster will be victorious in the end.

The GC hens are working overtime on egg production.  This weekend we'll set out our "eggs 4 sale" sign.  If the bees are overachievers like the hens, we'll need a "honey 4 sale" sign too.  Any good recipes that call for large quantities of eggs + honey?

Bee hive count is up to 10 as of this posting with more cutouts scheduled this week.  Should reach our max of 20 hives soon.

The throw from the last posting is finished!

Katy Daley posing with
the finished throw

Now if I could only get around to working on those original design patterns ....

What's Blooming

Peonies, Black Locust, Roses (I think they're heirloom roses - need to research this weekend), some strange purple flower in the back yard, Dame's Rocket

Coming Up

Finish blog design, continue hive construction, change out winter/summer clothes, start egg business