{"id":10827,"date":"2015-04-28T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=10827"},"modified":"2015-04-28T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T15:00:50","slug":"bluebell-time-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=10827","title":{"rendered":"Bluebell time in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been hard to get back to my blog after losing Amber. It&#8217;s odd when I go in the run and do a head count to see who is laying and count seven instead of eight. It&#8217;s odd in the morning when I poop pick the coop and Amber isn&#8217;t standing in the nest box watching me and chatting away.<\/p>\n<p>The day she went the girls stayed together in a tight group all day.\u00a0The first evening after she was gone the girls all perched up together on one perch instead of spread out like they usually do.<\/p>\n<p>When I cleaned the coop in the morning the poop was all under one perch instead of spread out evenly as it usually is.<\/p>\n<p>The oddest thing of all was that the next day Honey followed my every move as I poop picked the run all the time making a sad little whimpering noise. I really think she was missing Amber.<\/p>\n<p>Everything moves on of course and I thought a good way to kick start the blog again was to look to the garden. It&#8217;s bluebell time in the garden so I thought would try to capture this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10869\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/closed_tulips_and_bluebells.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10869\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/closed_tulips_and_bluebells.jpg\" alt=\"Morning tulips among the bluebells\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning tulips among the bluebells<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10870\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulpis_and_bluebells.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10870\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10870\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tulpis_and_bluebells.jpg\" alt=\"Afternoon tulips among the bluebells\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Afternoon tulips among the bluebells<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10871\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluebells.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10871\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluebells.jpg\" alt=\"Bluebells\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebells<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10879\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blue.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10879\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blue.jpg\" alt=\"Bluebells and helibore\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebells and helibore<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10875\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/more_bluebells1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10875\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/more_bluebells1.jpg\" alt=\"Bluebells and helibores\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring colour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been looking at recent photos of Amber and she looked so good. At least she went out on a high, looking her best and not suffering. We have two years of memories of her and I will always remember her when I see the bluebells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been hard to get back to my blog after losing Amber. It&#8217;s odd when I go in the run and do a head count to see who is laying and count seven instead of eight. 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