Happy Sunday, Cavers!

It's a lovely day here in Caveland!  Currently it's in the upper 60s and rainy as all get out!  Normally I'm not a fan of rain.  We have dogs.  Dogs + rain = me cleaning mud off floors all day long.  But since the garden went in yesterday and since I didn't water my veggie garden yesterday, the rain is quite welcome.  And it was a very polite rain as well, which I appreciate.  John woke up at 1PM from his nap so I was able to get the dogs out for their afternoon walk.  Walking back to the house with the last dog it started to drizzle.  Perfect timing! 

The chickens on the other hand were not entertained.  Apparently the wind started earlier today and it blew the door to their room closed while all but one were inside.  Single chickens are at risk chickens and that's not a very good thing for them.  Poor Medusa, our Araucana, was locked out alone and the girls were calling back and forth through the door to each other.  I felt horrible!  The good news is Matti, our very last foster dog, leaves for rescue on Thursday and I can remove the cover from their 'chicken door' so they can come and go as they please again.  I'll get the partial temporary chicken fence down so that the entire backyard will be totally opened up for them.  I think I'll also move it back to where the tortoise pen used to be behind the barn so they get the extra room there too.   At least then I don't have to worry about the door coming open or closed when it shouldn't.  My only problem then is making sure the chickens don't pick on the Chihuahuas! 

If the weather will cooperate and the rain will stop before it gets dark I'll get some photos of the flower bed now that I've got all the grass picked up.  I need to move a few smaller rocks from there and then it's all done.  The grass I dug up for the flower bed is in a wheelbarrow and I've listed it locally as 'free to good home'.  My pie in the sky plans to move it to bare patches went out the window by the time I was out of the shower last night and could feel those sore muscles.  The majority of the bare spots are in the area where the fire pit is anyway, so I think when I go get those larger rocks from Cookeville, maybe I'll grab a couple tons of flagstone or something and just put a patio in there.  I've got some leveling sand still in the garage anyway.  Might as well put it to use, right?

I think I'm going to go put on an afternoon pot of coffee and sit back and watch the cows graze across the street and just enjoy this wonderful lazy day!  In the meantime, here are some photos:

This is the garden, before I'd done the clean up of the grass and rocks:

 

This is the veggie garden on the left.  The back of it is the lettuces.  The front is the zucchini, squash, and green beans.  This was a week ago after it had been in the ground only about a week!

This is the right garden bed.  The green beans are in the back and the cucumbers are in the front.  Again, this is a week ago after it had been in the ground only a week or so!