Week of September 8 through September 14

#1 ◱ So many keto recipes call for erythritol. Since I can't find the dry granular stuff in bigger bags I just but the bullet and ordered online. Yes, I know that some brands have it in it, but sometimes they have other things also, and they usually cost more.

#2 ◱ The Incredible Hulk removes a tee post with his bare hands. (It helps that it rained 1.3 inches the day before.)

#3 ◱ Don is nipping away at the east elm tree. It really needed a haircut.

#4 ◱ Finishing up the cleanup of the two wood piles.

#5 ◱ Seasoned fireword, ready to be cut, split, and stacked.

#6 ◱ Dirt where the wood piles were before. And the new wood pile. And the Kubota Excavator working on the new basketball pad.

#7 ◱ Rocket Progress. Don gets the last bolt threaded.

#8 ◱ Rocket Progress. Don tightens more bolts.

#9 ◱ Rocket Progress. Lois attaches the canopy.

#10 ◱ Rocket Progress. Lois attaches the canopy.

#11 ◱ Rocket Progress.

#12 ◱ Rocket Progress.

#13 ◱ Rocket Progress. Lois thinks the design of the panels around the sides are wrong. What would you do if you climbed up the rope ladder and couldn't find a way in. That is what they designed. Lois designed it more like a secret hidden door.

#14 ◱ Rocket Progress. Back side.

#15 ◱ It's beginning to look a lot like Easter. Dominique left her box for a bit. These are the eggs she had been sitting on.

#16 ◱ Tic Tac Toe, three hens in a row. Okay she is back. Yay!

#17 ◱ Ducks have taken up a position in the pillbox, keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings.

#18 ◱ What could be more fun than a day at the beach? Rolling in the sand helps the chickens get rid of mites.

#19 ◱ The chickens are clearly eating from the new feeder, but mostly from the same two ports.

#20 ◱ Greenie and Blue Girl.

#21 ◱ Greenie closeup.

#22 ◱ Blue Girl closeup.

#23 ◱ Egg Harvest, two days, 8 yesterday (9/10), ten today (9/11)

#24 ◱ Don works on Chicken Run improvements. We are adding a sheet of plywood to keep rain off the nesting boxes.

#25 ◱ Don works on Chicken Run improvements. We are adding a sheet of plywood to keep rain off the nesting boxes.

#26 ◱ Baby Hummingbird.

#27 ◱ Chickadee on the fence between our bird feeders. Lois loves the song they sing.

#28 ◱ Chaffles (Cheese Waffles). Keto approved. Made with eggs and cheese.

#29 ◱ Egg delivered without a shell.

#30 ◱ The Three Guardians