Front Porch Pottery & Garden Accessories,.... And A Surprise

Yesterday on my way to the feed store, I went down Main Street through town instead of going on the freeway.  That is how I discovered this wonderful shop.

I LOVED this shop!  They had a LOT of really wonderful things to look at, and choose from.  Their plants and herbs and veggie seedlings were beautiful and healthy!!! 

I have been pricing the raised boxes at Lowe's and Home Depot.  I needed to get a couple more, but decided that I would just go with one more, and they happened to have one left here.  When I was in yesterday, Ed, the owner brought me over to see the one he had planted out front of the shop.  I was amazed at how much he had planted in there.  It was strategically planted, using every square inch of space, as well as vertical space, and it was perfect.

I fell in love with this wooden wheelbarrow.  Oh how I want it!!  I can just see this in my yard overflowing with flowers!

Moving inside now.  I will just let you see what all they have in there.  From beautiful pottery, garden art, tools, patio furniture, fountains, ponds, you name it, they had it. 

Meet Val.  She and her husband Ed own this wonderful garden shop. 

This is the kind of place that makes you think about that family owned shop down on Main Street, in Anytown USA.  Where the service is friendly and knowledgeable.  Where the prices are right.  Where they actually HELP you with your purchases, all the way to your car, where it has been properly wrapped and packaged, so that you will get it all home without incident.  I will be back to this shop.  And I will be back soon.  I told them I was going to do a blog post.  I hope all of my gardening friends here in the Corona-Norco area, will go say hi to Val and Ed at Front Porch Pottery & Garden Accessories.  They will greet you with a smile, and you will be so glad you went in.  Tell them Kris sent you!   : )  
The address is:  1701 Hamner Ave.  Norco CA.   (951) 398-8085
Now for my surprise.   Look what I brought home with me today...........

Two brown paper saks.  Guess what was inside the paper saks????? 

Oh my goodness....I am crazy for chickens!!!!  Crazy I tell you!!!  I love them!  I want bunches of them.  One in every color.  One of every breed.   I can already see I need to get a building permit to add on to the coop.  A second story perhaps. With a loft for dozens and dozens of my feathered friends to sleep at night, and a bunch of little nesting boxes for my girls to lay eggs of every color.  I will let them roam free during the day, and they can peck at the ground around me while I work in my garden. 
The two smaller ones, are only 1 day old!  They are both Amerucanas.  They will be laying those beautiful blue/green eggs.  The taller one, she is 1 week old.  And she is a Brahma.  This breed has feathers on the feet, and they look like they are wearing little feathered booties.  So cute.  My reason for getting three, was so that each one of our grandkids can pick one of their very own.  To name her, and help Gamma take care of her.  Hannah and Claire came over today to see them.  Hannah was SO excited!  Claire...not so much.  She is a bit frightened of animals at first.  She is scared to death of our dog Ducey!  And the chickens she likes when they are in the coop.  But when they are out and about, she is a little bit unsure.  Hannah on the other hand, wants to hold them.  Pet them. Feed them  Collect the eggs.  A little farm girl in the making.  Here she is meeting the chicks and picking out her very own.

She picked the yellow/apricot Ameraucana.  She is still thinking about the perfect name.  Tossing around Chicas for her name choice.   

 Do I have something on my nose?  Like maybe corn mash?

After the visit with the chicks, we went out to the garden and they helped me fill my new garden box with soil.  Tomorrow when Noah comes, he can pick out his chick and a name.  Claire will get the the one that didn't get picked.  Somehow I don't think she will mind.
My garden is getting there.  Another month, and I will be harvesting quite a bit.

The back wall is planted and I love how it turned out.

I sat outside watching the chickens to see where they would roost.  I put a larger roost up there, and I wanted to make sure the pullet didn't try to get into the nest box again.

There she is....Lady Gaga is trying to inch up there to that nest box again.  Even though I have put a towel down across the top.  I wound up having to go get a hammer and nail the towel down.  Then I picked her up and put her on the larger roost, and she and the other two joined her.  Finally. 

Snacker roosts alone there on the left.  She is better today.  I am glad I got those antibiotics going right away.  She even let me hand feed her 3 droppers of the medicated water today.  
If you are sick of hearing about chickens and gardens, I am sorry.  But this has been consuming me lately.
Tomorrow is my Mama's birthday.  Also my niece Deanna's birthday.  We are going to dinner at Tony Roma's as per Deanna's request.  Tomorrow I also need to catch up on the housework I have been neglecting since I have spent so much time this past week outside.  Off to bed now.
G'night.