Got a call from someone selling chickens last week. He’d held onto my number until his pullets began to lay, then called me back. I couldn’t resist his description, and our red sex links are now sharing living quarters with an araucana mix. They lay green eggs! Which yes, we have eaten with some ham. Dr. Seuss was right after all. Now I just have to hope that their back feathers will grow in fairly soon; during their first months of life they endured the machismo of a rooster.
I’ve continued to harvest a lunchtime salad from the cold frame once a week. 
The plants, while certainly slow-growing, are still pushing out new leaves, even after surviving several hard freezes. I still wouldn’t call my construction anything but ‘primitive’, but for scrap materials it has done fairly well.
Further Cricket Thicket farm notes must be honest and include the deaths of note as well. Many a mouse has met its match via peanut butter and a mouse trap; this past week we’ve trapped 5 on the kitchen counter tops. Next I suppose I may need to bait the chicken feed storage area.
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