5 Things

Do you know what these are? Those things hanging from the rusty bells? I noticed them hanging on a hook under my kitchen porch eave today:

After I harvested my garlic last July, I hung a few of them here to dry:

and promptly forgot about them:

I wonder what would happen if I just stuck them in the ground like this, without breaking them into individual cloves:

Look who I ran into:

I found him living in our wood pile:

He's an Oregon Ensatina Salamander (Ensatina escholtzii oregonensis):

Ensatinas are the only salamanders with the tail constricted at base and 5 toes on their hind feet:

We had visitors to the farm yesterday. The donkeys were highly entertained:

A bizarre wind blew through here last night. It knocked the goat chairs over in the middle pasture:

And blew off three of the chicken run roof panels:

I found the panels in various places in the chicken pasture:

...along with the bricks I had used to keep them from blowing off:

Sparrow let me know this evening that it is starting to get colder again. See how puffed up she is? I have a weather forecasting chicken.

The talent here on Critter Farm boggles my mind sometimes.