Welcome to the FU!!

Well there really isn't much to report on from the "house" build, Mr M has been tied to the desk working hard on the plans, he has sent off for some prints and then he will be meeting with the planning officer to go through them and then refine!

So apart from that another duck house has been built, this one is to be sold and if we are successful he will make another one - so on and so forth!

So what's been happening in the garden? Courgettes (zuchinni) are giving back daily in huge quantities - I might have planted too many plants, but the neighbors are enjoying them too! We are eating them, the dogs are eating them and the FU are enjoying them too!

I have been making lots of zuchinni bread!

Nasturtiums are blooming marvelous and the bees are happy...

Enough to bring them inside - they smell so good!

Our local thug "the deer" has been back and nibbled off a 3rd of my beans.   WELL I am fighting back with CD's, apparently these work, deer are scared crapless of CD's!  Of course they are, you just have to make sure you get the ones that aren't to their music tastes.  The local deer around here like both kinds of music, Country & Western, so we have gone with Straight Up Gansta Rap!

Everything else is loving all the sunshine and growing so well, I have been picking cucumbers regularly now, and hoping tomatoes won't be too much longer...

My garlic is nearly ready to harvest, usually you plant on the shortest day and harvest on the longest day, of course that depends on location and variety!

Finally we have had politics at the front of our minds recently, 2016 could be a pivotal year here and across the pond!  Our little community has seen the formation of the FU (Fowl Union), the joining of 2 coops.  Last week we took a vote and the majority spoke so the adjoining wall came down!

The FU ensures that there is freedom of travel, trade agreements in place for the trade of... well um well, chicken feed!  The opportunities are bountiful to allow each community to live and or work in the other, there is also a new decree in place to encourage cross border communications, the ducks are learning "cluck" and the chickens are trying to master "quack".

There is also a common currency which is well, um well chicken feed!   There is a strong belief that the newly formed FU will have the weight to influence the big picture!

We let them carry on thinking that, it is easier that way!

We feed them salad bowls...

And provide rain when demanded...

A Happy FU is a peaceful FU, if only the problems all over the world could be solved with a salad bar and a hosepipe!