Growing Chicks and Changes Outside

First the Chicks:
Lots of growing and changing on all fronts.  They are learning to view humans as possible food providers and have started eating food out of our hands.  This is good now.  I expect it to be painful later on.

As you will see, their digs have changed too - they needed a bigger box and a littler change.

This whole process, according to them, was the most traumatic event ever. Oh, the peeping! Murder most fowl.  I cut the end off the new box, set up the litter, feeder and water in it and moved the chicks in there.  Then emptied the old box and cut its end off too.  I married the two boxes together , added littler and added a wooden roost. I don't know if it is too early for the roost but they are climbing all over it and seem to very interested in the change.

There is one more change coming.  I arrived home after work on evening to find the door to the office wide open, the cat asleep on the chair and the dog asleep on the floor.  The chicks were fine but it is clear that I just got lucky.  So there will be a top for their box coming this weekend.  In this case, better safe than lucky. 

As you can also see - they are really growing.  New sets of feathers everyday.  It is warmer out so the move out to the garage is coming closer (unless I get the coop done first).

Now for the Gardens:  
They are growing too.  Sprouts everywhere.  We did have one loss with the continual rain and I will be replacing our "Trout Back" lettuce today at the Growing Hope Plant sale.  It just plain rotted out. Drowned.  The new additions for this week are flowers. Elizabeth wanted flowers as part of our back yard and here they are!  Zinnias, Pansies, Daisies, and Black-eyed Susans.    I will have to add the picture later...camera has to charge up.