Heading up to TN. early last tuesday with the rain and fog these poppies just jumped right out and in bright sunlight i never can take decent pictures of poppies but the morning was perfect and I love the red color of the poppies with grey of the fog. Came home thru the smokies but was to early for the sunset, not enough rain for the small waterfalls don the mountain to be flowing. Wasd a long day up and back to Knoxville. Came home and my goats had gotten out and the neighbor was kind enough to put them in the back yard and close the driveway gate, but didn't know to close my garden gate so the goats just plwoed thru almost everything, got the blueberries and took just about every leaf off the huge climbing rose that had blown over in a high wind we had . ate some of the grass, trambled the daylillies but didn't eat the ones jyst getting ready to bloom or the gardenias which they usually try to devour when they are in the back yard and wzant to reach over the fence to get them, I double fenced so they can no longer reach.
It is rainy today, took 3 goats to the auction 2 bucks, faiths and hatties and snowflakes dow from last year, know I won't get much but not worth hanging on when the doe kids can use the milk and snowflakes kid didn't get bred and has a double teat so I wouldn't get much for her anyway. It has been another buck year for me and with hattie finally giving me a doe but she has a double teat, I seem to get one evry year. I hope I don't have to sell all my goats if the company I work for closes.
Anyway on the way home from dropping the kids ( goat ones that is) at the auction I stopped to cut some wild flowers indigo, daisies, some tiny purple flowers and some oak leaves I also cut something interesting and viney looking which irratated and made my skin itch on my thumb and finger on my left hand and It still is itchy so it wasn't the 7 minute itch plant which usually has bigger leaves. It about drove me nuts for trhe past hour itching finally cleaned it with bleach and warm water and then sprayed with benadryl and it has calmed down some. I should stick to cutting what i know! But here is the picture of the flowers and they are in a vase I made. Had to put a ziploc bag because it leaks
meant to trim it but forgot. Since it was still rainy when I got home the game hen was trying to cover her chicks which have gotten quite big, she has 5 left and you can see the feet of one on the left and the head of another just peeking out from under her on the right besiade the other 2 that you can see clearly, any day they will be on their own but till then she really takes care of them and attacks anything that comes close. I feed them up by the goat feed bins and now the wait down there for me in the morning. Hope she didn't have any roosters for I will be giving them away.
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