Sweet Potato Project

K-dog started a science project growing a sweet potato vine from a whole sweet potato. We thought it would be fun to allow y'all to join in on the project! The following is what she has discovered during the project.

On February 16th, 2013 she placed the sweet potato in a mason jar full of water. She then had me place it in a south facing window so it would receive sunlight throughout the day!

On March 12 the first root was seen!

On March 26th the first vine bud formed
(Vine bud can be seen just to the left of the toothpick & above the lip of the jar)

On April 9th we can see the vine buds have grown & the roots have continued to grow.

Please check back for more reports on the sweet potato project.

Thank you,
K-Dog & Momma Sie

~*~ Chicks in the Bator ~*~

It's SPRING!!!! Oh how I LOVE spring!!! Pretty flowers & TONS of babies!!!

We are well on our way to experiencing all the "newness" spring brings!!! We had 1 of our 6 momma cats go into early labor, after she was roughly played with by our 2 youngest dogs (bad dogs dumb cat)  she had 3 kittens but was unable to care for them (neither was I) so they're stay here was short. Sad yes, but it happens so we move on.
We still have 5 prego momma cats that should be having babies in the next few weeks!!!
In January 1 of my hens decided it was hatching time...well I kept collecting eggs & about the beginning of March she "gave up". Now that it's spring time I have NO BROODY HENS!!!! Silly Chickens!!! So as I knew I wanted to hatch chicks I got out the incubator & put in 19 chicken eggs! Yes I know odd number *shrug* I also had a wonderful friend donate 6 duck eggs to hatch out. Last Tuesday I set up the incubator, collected eggs to be put in it & got busy. I was taking the box of duck eggs down the stairs (I put the incubator in the basement so it wouldn't get "bumped") as I was going down the stairs - you guessed it - I fell!!! the box fell out of my hands & bounced down the stairs, 1 of the 6 eggs bounced out of the box while the others went crashing together leaving a trail of egg goo down my stairs....that ONE egg survived with NO cracks!!!  I put it in the incubator after having a really good cry! I candled the eggs on Sunday afternoon & as far as I could tell I only had 1 chicken egg that was bad (showed a blood ring signifying death) 

My duck egg shows a beautiful LUCKY duckling growing inside!!! (along with 18 chicks in their eggs) 

I'm so excited that Lucky may actually hatch!!!!  I'm not going to "count my chicks before they hatch" but I will be candling them again next Tuesday!!!

The chicks should hatch around April 22nd & Lucky Duck should hatch around April 29th!!!

Please stay tuned for weekly updates & pictures of Lucky Duck!

~Momma Sie