Moved the guineas into their permanent quarters in the barn after installing the automatic door and a roof over the opening. Quite an upgrade from their current brooder.

Plan is to setup a small fenced in area outside the door in a few weeks and try to get them to start going out in the morning and back in when it gets dark.

The big landscape/hardscape project has begun. Expecting a good month or even two months of disruption. New yard, sidewalks, driveway, plants and pool deck. Here are some before and after pictures from the first week.

Wife harvested the garlic and onion beds this weekend, turns out we have a TON of garlic and onions as seen in the pictures below. We built a simple drying rack in the barn and am planning to dry much of it in the dehydrator.

A few of the fawn photos from the game cameras

Purchased another 16 guinea keets to add to the three we hatched ourselves. This should end up being a nice flock to free range around the house and barn to eat insects, especially ticks. Looks like quite a mix of different colors which is nice.

This must be the height of Spring. Everything seems to be popping up and growing or hatching! The garden is really producing, more than we can eat. The fruit trees have a bunch of fruit and the guinea eggs finally hatched. We had a terrible hatch rate with the eggs, only 3 out of 24 but I’ve already identified a source of guinea keets to get another dozen or so from.

Had three large trees removed from the front yard in preparation for a large hardscaping project. Normally I cut trees down myself but these were way too close to the pool and house to chance it. The black walnut tree was not rotten on the inside and I’m saving the trunk to cut into slabs at some point, see picture far below.

Saw this on our morning walk around the big pond. Looks like the fish are hollowing out nests and laying eggs, there were at least 3 or 4 areas just like this around the pond.

Boy this was a lot of work, 162 bags of mulch in total. Looks great if I do say so myself!