The insects are back

First bumblebee window rescue of the year.  There will be many more.    The mosquitoes are back, but they aren’t at plague proportions yet.  The blackflies are back, with their horrible parasitic bite, like they are drilling into your skin with their head, which is what it feels like.   The ticks are back, but are either just beginning, or my guineas are shielding me from the full horror show.  The bittern is gallunking; the peepers are singing.  It is almost time for the screen doors, the window screens, and the secondary line of defense- the mosquito bed tent.

But for now, it’s still just cool enough and just not buggy enough, to have doors and windows wide open with the air rolling through, which means bees might bumble through too.

The chickens are still fully utilizing the greenhouse.

Especially the Silkies.  They are quick to learn where they go to bed, though.  That’s good.

Outside, I have to get a fence around my new garden (old greenhouse site), before the hens clean up all the resident worms.  They’ve been assiduously working at it, churning and breaking up my mulch quite nicely, but I want to keep my worms, thank you.