Marine layer living, oh and chickens too....

For the last several days hints of summer have muscled their way through an entrenched marine layer. A couple of hours of sunshine one day, another few hours the next. June Gloom is the theme, and I'm trying to be patient, but.... LOL. I'm very grateful it's not HOT here, and as for the sunshine, well, it'll come back one of these days.

Gigi is in the Broody Hen condo and just about everyone else desperately wants in! Photo courtesy of my husband.

The chickens don't seem to care; they're a year old today, going about their henny-penny ways, including Gigi going broody again, as well as a few hens molting. Hard to believe it's been a year since they hatched, and a nearly a year since we chose them, brought them home, and began our chicken adventure. The good thing about the marine layer is that I don't have to move their water container in and out of the sun. By the time the sun does come out, where the waterer sits is in the shade, not something I considered previously during the summer marine layer, nor due to where they lived this time last year. Last year they were in our basement/garage, and by the time they were in the run, it was mid-late July. By then the marine layer wasn't so prevalent, but the angle of the sun had altered. Not that I recall a lot from then, in that it was enough to admire the pullets, or maybe we still called them baby chicks. We sat in the run in lawn chairs as they scurried about, looking so small for the size of the run.

From the twenty-first of this month when the sun was briefly shining; here's Nadia Chicken. She's still adventurous, and likes to be solitary.

Now they have the run of the, well, property, haha. At times they still look small, but it's all about perspective. Kinda like me and this marine layer. I would LOVE to soak up bright mornings and long late evenings, but it's still plenty light despite the cloud cover and July will be light as well, and we'll probably get some sunny days next month. Probably.

Living Room quilt so named because that's where I began sewing rows a few weeks ago....

Meanwhile, I've finished the rows for my Living Room quilt, a project made up from several different sizes of squares sewn in rows, then placed in a manner that I'm happy with. Sewing those rows together will be tricky to keep them basically aligned; I don't want a diagonal quilt. Not that I have time to quilt anything beyond the Warm Hearted quilt that I worked on this evening, ten hearts stitched. But maybe someday I'll have time, or someone will need a quilt top/back, and I can pull out a wonky or exquisite finished piece and say, "Well here you go!"

Camilla.... I wish her face was in the sun like Nadia, but she was facing the other way. Still the alpha hen, lol, maybe she always will be.

It's kinda late for me to be writing a post, but being it's the chickens' hatch day, I wanted to put something here about them. Gigi is broody, and we're calling her Plucky because she plucked off a bunch of breast feathers, sigh. I'm pretty sure she's not molting there. Plus I wanted to put up a photo of the Living Room quilt despite it not being wholly finished. When it is, I'll hang it from the laundry line, that will make for a nice picture. And maybe the sun will be shining, but if not, the marine layer will keep pesky shadows at bay.

The marine layer isn't evil, I need to remind myself. It's good for redwood trees, keeping us cool, and uh, keeping shadows out of photographs. Yup, lots of pluses with that marine layer.

Yup indeed. (Insert smiley face here.)