Charlotte is still quite happy to have babies - although she whines when we check on them. They are eating and drinking - the light and heater are keeping it about 80 degrees or a little less during the night and it is warming up during the day. They are active and seem happy. We still think we got five Americanas (as ordered) and one of something else. The Americanas were also supposed to be all hens. We'll see.
I need to kick myself up and go fix a hose outside and then drag a bag of new dirt to the main garden and put it into the beds there. There will probably be another frost here before March is out. I have ordered some seeds from Sandhill Preservation center a week or so ago and they should be getting here sometime... trying to keep my fingers from itching to buy other seeds - I do have some kale and mesclun greens to plant, and have also went and harvested a little bit of dandelion green from that bed I had gotten that started in a few years ago. None of the italika rossa (italian red-stemmed) dandelions have survived, but the other native ones I put seeds in there from have - and I did that so I would have a clean source to enjoy some of that in the Spring. I also have two bean plants that I sprouted last week and they need to go out in one of the beds. They are 'Alice Whiting' green / dry dual-purpose beans I ordered a few years ago and have kept replanting.
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