Garden Project and More!

After all the cold weather of this winter, last weekend was quite delightful! It was so delightful that my mother and I decided to forgo the Gym in favor of doing some things that needed to be done around the yard.  So after I was over the majority of side effects from being in the hospital at the beginning of the week we decided to built a raised bed for our leafy greens! 

This is the raised bed mom and I built last Friday. We hauled somewhere around 180 bricks from one side of our driveway about 25 yards to where we built the beds. 

One of my brothers then came and built the second one.

We already have some little sprouting Collard plants...

And Lettuce plants!

Of course while we were at the farm store to get new work gloves we had to see if they had any baby hatchlings. They had just gotten new baby ducks and chickens! So mother got 6 baby chickens and I got 2 baby ducklings!

They were quite fond of the shadow my brother cast! We are fairly certain that one is a boy and one is a girl so I named them Persephone and Hermes.

They are so adorable! They don't go anywhere without each other and if Hermes can't see Persephone for more than a few second we starts to freak out just a bit.

(Sorry I didn't get any pictures of the chicks right after we got them.)

Even after just a week they have grown quite a bit! You can't tell with the ducks in pictures just yet, but if I had gotten pictures of the chicks the first day you would be able to tell how much they have grown.

I also finished this choker this week. As I was looking for new snowflake patterns I found one that I ended up repurposing into a choker pattern. I then threaded velvet ribbon through it and I think it turned out quite well. 

(Sorry about the bad picture quality.. )