Piggy Progress

Flown Piggies Farm sign, with bird house post in the rear

My handyman Jim and his wife bought a big ole home in Alabama, so they could be near their kids and grandkiddies. I am happy for them, but now I have to find a new handyman - who needn't be named Jim III. Meanwhile, I engaged Ingrid's fence building guy, Tom. In the past month he installed the 'Catio' in back of the cottage which keeps friend Barbara's 2 kitties from devouring the local birdlife, while being able to go onto their custom Catio and take in the sun.

Swallow's Apartment

On completing the Catio I asked Tom if he might look at my plans for hanging the Flown Piggies Farm sign, which I bought a year ago. He did a wonderful job framing and hanging the sign, and I couldn't be happier with the results. He also put up 2 posts, with one little Western Bluebird/Swallow box per post. No takers for the nesting boxes as yet. Meanwhile, the same Violet-green Swallows that nested in the ventilation hole over my bedroom balcony are nesting there yet again this year. I wonder if they nested there the years prior to my moving into the farm house? No reason to assume they didn't.

A friend in Port Angeles gave me a potted Flowering Currant, a native species. It will be planted behind the Flown Piggies sign. That is, it will be planted as soon as I figure how to dig a hole in the gawdawful clay soil that is like set cement to dig in. Might put a raised bed around the sign to make planting easier.... Yeah, that's the ticket!

Hummingbird dining at Flowering Currant shrub