work, chicks, flowers

We got the rest of our chick order on Saturday so now we have our first Rhode Island Reds. We also got more meat hens for a total of sixteen, six of which where originally going to be someone Else's but they decided not to raise any. The chicks are growing quickly especially the meat birds which are twice the size of the other chicks already! The other chicks are flying up to the edge of the twelve inch boards that I have surrounding them.

I am going to post a lot of flower pictures as they come into bloom in the yard. We don't necessarily have a large number of plants of each flower but they are all from our property.
I posted a picture of a clematis bloom on June 3rd. It is the same one that is shown here only now it is fully opened. Once clematis get established they are great year after year.

This is a picture of a cedar trellis we built at work. The posts are 6x6's as are the four joists. Above those are 2x6's which is what the gates are also made from. We made the gates for the trellis and the larger gates for the garden.