After one or two stutters earlier in the month and in May, summer has finally arrived in Anjou. This is wonderful, although it does bring its own challenges at times. If you are covered with fur, however silky and lovely that fur is, when the sun is beating down and it is 28 degrees in the shade, you need to find somewhere cool to hang out. Inside my car in the garage (on the parcel shelf - or cat lounger) is one good place, but Maigret doesn't do indoors if she can help it during daylight hours. Well - you never know what birds, shrews, mice and lizards, not to mention bugs and butterflies, you might miss! So she is here - somewhere!
I didn't really need the scarlet pimpernell to tell me that it wasn't going to rain, but it is nice to have that reassurance!
And finally, after the excitement of that first egg from Salt, I can confirm that she is up to four eggs produced, while Pepper is behind the game a bit with two (and I haven't checked yet today). Salt's eggs are slowly increasing in size as can be seen by the row of three paler eggs (we have already eaten the first one), while Pepper's are tiny but a lovely chocolate brown colour. That dark colour will fade as the eggs get larger and she gets more mature. Incidentally, although they are tiny, Pepper's eggs are unlikely to be wind eggs (ones with no yolk) as they are egg shaped. Wind eggs generally look like pingpong balls!
Well, that's me learned something new for today - I didn't know about wind eggs - now I just need to find someone to impress with my new knowledge!!
Posted by: Anne Donald | 27 June 2010 at 06:44 PM