Blind Creek Beach

We spent the day at Blind Creek Beach, down near the Nuclear Power Plant. We saw only three others spending the day at the beach

Ft. Pierce Farmers Market

Every Saturday, there is a wonderful Farmers Market in Ft. Pierce. It is by far the best around the Treasure Coast area.

Loved Ft. Pierce

Went to Florida for two weeks (April 2-16, 2011). we stayed at a great condo called "Sandy Toes". Here is their website: Sandy Toes Beach Rentals. The place was immaculate and the owners, Nina & Glenn were great.

Greenhouse Heater - Part II

Well. the mystery is over. The propane lasted only 1 week. This will get really expensive. Now for plan 2. How about a wood stove? I have one we bought a few years ago from a guy we bought some books from and its been in our garage ever since. Maybe I'll move it out to the greenhouse this weekend and see if is ok to heat the greenhouse without melting everything.

Some of our Marans & our darkest eggs

Here is a picture of our darkest eggs to date. Also I have posted two pictures I took yesterday as I was getting the eggs.

Greenhouse Heater

As part of the packaged greenhouse from Farmtek, I also got a propane heater. It is one of those wall mount ventless types from Desa. They are also know as Glo-Warm heaters. I decided to mount the heater on a piece of concrete hardboard that I got from Home Depot. I mounted the hardboard to the aluminum wall supports. I used the cement hardboard because I didn't know how much heat the heater would generate and I didn't want the polycarbonate wall melting. It all worked out pretty good. I put a 100 pound propane tank in back of the greenhouse and piped in the propane underground. Now I just have to see how long it taks to burn through 100 lbs. of proapne during the winter. We haven't put any plants in yet, but are planning on starting germinating in February.

Marans Eggs Comparison

I gathered about 18 eggs today. The marans are now laying regularly. So I decided to take the 12 darkest and compare them to the color chart. Well here it is. Let me know what you think about the color. I think the dark ones are 6 & 7s. They are all from the Cratty line. I got them this spring from Kelly.