Noah's Ark

This weekend we loaded up our ark (ok, it was really a Toyota Tacoma) with all the species we wanted to keep after the 40 days and 40 nights of escrow.

We took about 75 plants down to Salem including several big hydrangeas.

The hydrangeas got planted along the house and the rest of the stuff got planted in a temporary location behind the garage. Unfortunately, the hot weather and transplant stress may have caused a few fatalities; I guess only time will tell for certain.

We also moved the chickens down to Salem this weekend. Tuesday we learned a little about the downside of living in the wilderness: we found Ruby's remains as some local creature had obviously had a big chicken dinner. Ruby had been quite sickly of late and had stopped laying about two weeks ago; however, we still feel bad that her death was so violent. We also fear for Pearl, who is the youngest, healthiest and strongest of the batch, but is nonetheless still just a dumb chicken.