Its a Guinea's Life

These two invited themselves to the party.

Guineas, they are a marvelous breed of fowl. They are very independent and have a carefree existence.

Guineas are an interesting addition to your farm or acreage.  They have great personalities. Guineas are the farm yard watch dog, sounding the alarm whenever anything unusual occurs.  They will consume large amounts of insects and seldom bother your garden or flowers.  They are easy and inexpensive to raise.  Once started, they fend for themselves, living on insects, seeds, and grasses.  They control deer ticks, wood ticks, grasshoppers, box elder bugs, flies crickets, and all other insects.  Their call will discourage rodents.  They will kill snakes, and will alert you to anything unusual.

Even though these two guineas aren't mine, they and about six others often grace my yard and property helping me keep the insect population in check. I give thanks to them for their efforts!

It has been awhile since I have blogged, over a week I think. Life has been very busy with preparation and planting the yearly garden. Thanks goes out to Dan who has worked hard at tilling my ground and made me raised beds for my tomatoes, peppers, onions and radishes. After waiting for the weather to clear and the rain to stop, I finally got my garden planted. Hallelujah! Praise be to the garden nymphs and that the fairies give me their blessings.

I planted two new grapes plants in front to go with the others climbing the lattice on the front deck. I love spring and have my deck pots all planted and I am waiting for them to proliferate.

Thank God that I have a great mower, two wheeled gas powered trimmer , sprinkler system and my health to do the all this yard work on my six acre homestead.

It wasn't all yard work this past week though. Western Nebraska Consultants LTC, Nursing Solutions, LLC had an actual consulting job. Yeah! Linda also just got done teaching a medication aide class through WNCC here in Alliance and I will be starting a 80 hours basic nursing assistant night class next week. So things are starting to shape up business wise. Not too much, but just enough is my motto...