What a weekend this has been!
Being squeamish about killing the roosters - and to be honest the young ones were hardly a meal - we decided to give them to folks who wanted them for their own flocks. So we gave a few away. We kept Barry and a handsome Americauna (that will spell trouble - like his dad) and we still haven't got to the youngest of the flock.
Tropical Storm Danny arrived Saturday and brought a deluge of rain. From mid afternoon until mid early morning it just threw it down, then when the rain subsided a wind came. in the morning we were out checking on the chicken family only to find that Barry had company in his pen - and had lost his head. A mink had broken into his pen & killed him. We were quite disturbed by this - I actually had heard a ruckus going on & thought it was another rooster getting frisky with the girls! Wrong!! Poor Barry had no escape, what an awful death.
So now our chicken family is quite quiet! We have the one Americauna who now thinks he is Alpha, and the younger ones who haven't shown their true colours yet. AND we are uneasy in case the mink comes back - or brings friends. we have a live trap waiting to snare it, but thus far no mink. They have a fierce reputation.
What a sad time.

Well, our hurricane amounted to a bit of rain & some wind that didn't do any damage here. Halifax got hurt a bit & Peggy's Cove had a lot of water over the rocks. So we didn't get much more than a fall day. It's still humid though. I hate the humidity, I long for fall & wearing a cardigan again. That thought at the moment makes me melt!
Because of the storm the Gilberts Cove Lighthouse historical Society used our barn for their AGM & pot luck supper - another excuse to party!
Hopefully this is the last weather 'worry' for a while.
This is a picture of our 'barn' in case you think we had a meeting on the hay bales :)

We are supposed to be meeting Hurricane Bill over this weekend.
The word is Nova Scotia is going to get the brunt of the storm, usually it's the Atlantic coast that gets the most attention from storms like this and I think this will be the case again this time. We are not on the Atlantic side of the province so are hoping to miss the hardest part of the storm.
In preparation for the storm I have just come in with a harvest from the garden - in case the garden gets trashed with the storm. I have 3 different kinds of beans, peas, blueberries & blackberries. So I feel quite proud of the garden. We have had a good crop of beans & peas, so are set for winter. We are just about to get smothered with zucchini, so I'm going to be making a lot of zucchini breads & whatever!
OK, we'll see how we are affected by the storm.
Watch this space!!!!!!!!!