Week of May 17 through May 23, 2020

#1 ◱ Facemask Pro Level. Next we need Daffy Duck Lady, right?

#2 ◱ Lois Achievement with her new Fitbit.

#3 ◱ Fuji Apple. Most of the funniest trees have fruits.

#4 ◱ Pear Concordia. Kind of pathetic little pears but it's a start.

#5 ◱ Cherry Montmorency South Orchard. This tree had always done well.

#6 ◱ Cherry Bing South Orchard. These are the first cherries for this tree.

#7 ◱ Cherry South Orchard Southwest. These are still the first cherries for this tree.

#8 ◱ South Orchard 4 north 3 west

#9 ◱ Gall mites on the silver maple

#10 ◱ Gall mites on the silver maple

#11 ◱ Cherry Queen Anne, Montmorency

#12 ◱ Lois and Don reinstall the gate at South Perimeter Road

#13 ◱ Lois and Don reinstall the gate at South Perimeter Road

#14 ◱ Lois and Don reinstall the gate at South Perimeter Road

#15 ◱ Lois and Don reinstall the gate at South Perimeter Road

#16 ◱ Don works to attach the new six-foot gate on the guest house south sidewalk.

#17 ◱ We used to be able to go to the picnic area this way.

#18 ◱ I don't want to lay my eggs in the new boxes. I will just lay them in the weeds of Blueberry.

#19 ◱ Waldo is standing where the chicken hut used to be. We moved it away from the fence so they could not use it to fly into the picnic area.

#20 ◱ Lois took down the nesting box since they actually were not sitting on any eggs. So now Chiffon is sitting in the purple box that was below it. I actually like this place for being broody. It is safe for chicks. I wish we had some fertile chicken eggs.

#21 ◱ The black australorp is sitting on one duck egg in the west end.

#22 ◱ Chickens want out!

#23 ◱ Lois works on getting the camera wires across Cherry Lane

#24 ◱ Lois works on getting the camera wires across Cherry Lane

#25 ◱ Lois works on getting the camera wires across Cherry Lane

#26 ◱ Lois works on getting the camera wires across Cherry Lane

#27 ◱ Lois creates nesting boxes for the chickens. Don made washers on screws to attach them to the wall.

#28 ◱ Lois creates nesting boxes for the chickens.

#29 ◱ Lois creates nesting boxes for the chickens.

#30 ◱ Lois creates nesting boxes for the chickens.

#31 ◱ Three ducklings huddle in the corner of the corral.

#32 ◱ Incubator #2 settings. 104F up top translates to 100F down at the bottom.

#33 ◱ Moving duck eggs from incubator #1

#34 ◱ incubator #2, the white incubator.

#35 ◱ incubator #2 with Lois.

#36 ◱ duckling habitat for until they are old enough to live outside. With Don.

#37 ◱ Pip

#38 ◱ Pip

#39 ◱ First hatch, still wet from the eggshell.

#40 ◱ First hatch, drying off in the corner of the white incubator.

#41 ◱ First hatch, relocated to the corral.

#42 ◱ Second hatch.

#43 ◱ Two chicks in the corral.

#44 ◱ Another pip.

#45 ◱ This chick zipped really fast.

#46 ◱ Two chicks came out from under the warming plate (the brooder).

#47 ◱ Don and the chicks playing "tap tap".

#48 ◱ Don and the chicks playing "tap tap".

#49 ◱ Into the pool!

#50 ◱ Three duckling chicks at the flying saucer.

#51 ◱ Three duckling chicks at the water cooler.

#52 ◱ About 11 eggs just incubating past their prime.

#53 ◱ Three eggs are all that are left in the yellow incubator. We move them to the white incubator when they supposedly have two days left.

#54 ◱ Compare the ducks at 28 days of age.

#55 ◱ Compare the ducks at 28 days of age.

#56 ◱ Don put gravel at the Goldie entrance so the chickens cannot go under the fence.

#57 ◱ Lois going through the blueberry Goldie gate to mow.

#58 ◱ Lois mowing Blueberry.

#59 ◱ Lois moving a tree branch so she can mow.

#60 ◱ Lois moving a tree branch so she can mow.

#61 ◱ Don mowing the South Orchard where the ducks and Duck Haven are.

#62 ◱ Don mowing the South Orchard where the ducks and Duck Haven are.

#63 ◱ Don mowing the South Orchard where the ducks and Duck Haven are.

#64 ◱ Treehouse Island improvements. Our friends moved the rosebush so can mow.

#65 ◱ Treehouse Island improvements. Our friends moved tree disks so that is looks better and more balanced.

#66 ◱ Treehouse Island had more rose bushes in the East end.

#67 ◱ Treehouse Island West end.

#68 ◱ one big bush that was moved in treehouse so we could more easier.

#69 ◱ Tia roses along Don's study wall.

#70 ◱ Big pot of lilies that Nancy have me that still needs planting.

#71 ◱ Picnic Area: Lois's miniature rose bush from Joseph in Mother's Day. And lilies from my neighbor Nancy.

#72 ◱ grapes growing in the Picnic Area.

#73 ◱ Honeysuckle growing in the Picnic Area.