Dragons, Garden, Leaves & Ducks

After my male bearded dragon passed away I decided to get another so I'd have a chance to try raising babies again next year. To double my odds I also wanted a second female but the farm I order from was out of regular adults. We negotiated price and availability and I ended up getting a red male and 2 silky juvenile females.
The lizards arrived yesterday and I was a bit disappointed. The "adult" male is what I'd call barely adult and the pair of juvie females are very juvenile.  But I try to make the best of everything that comes my way. The male should have several good years of breeding in him and the young lasses will be productive for quite some time.

I cleared out one of my raised bed gardens the other day and reseeded with roots and greens hoping to get at least a few greens before winter. My Dad always insisted that collard greens and such needed a frost to make them sweet and tender and some say roots can stay in "cold storage" in ground during Winter to be pulled up as needed. I'm always one to try traditional wisdom as back in the day if it didn't work you didn't eat. Therefore I seeded rape greens as they was the only greens seeds I had along with radishes, carrots and beets.

Coming home yesterday morning I saw at least one of my neighbors has begun raking and bagging leaves. I already had plenty to do so I passed on this round. My experience last year was somewhat surprising as I had several hundred (at least) acorns sprout. Only God knows how many acres of new oak forest I could have planted with all the seedlings! But soon I expect to be fetching home sacks and sacks of leaves (and acorns).

It's been about a week since my ducks have laid any eggs so that harvest season may be drawing to a close but my young hens are well into growing real feathers and becoming all grown up. I'm mixing more scratch and grains into their feed as well as giving them more grass clippings and weed pullings from the yard. It won't be long before I can open the fence and let them in with the adult females and then later in with the males and the geese. Then I have enough wire that I can fence off a section at a time to allow greenery to grow again and rotate their enclosures. Once I block access to underneath the storage building I can PDQ add another couple hundred square feet to their yards.