Spring update from the Cumberland Plateau in southern middle Tennessee

Here we are pulling into our driveway at Brigid's Wood... our new gate is open in this picture (Alexis wanted to be in the woods!):
This is a long shot of the front of our Irish cottage showing the whiskey barrels with honeysuckle plants. We are in progress of setting the barrels in place... the idea is to have the sweet smelling vines grow on the lattice work. Our fenced garden area and duck pen are between the house and the storage building. The garden fence is barely visible in this picture unless you click the picture to enlarge it.
This is a picture of what our "landscaping" will look like... au natural... NO GRASS MOWING!
Tomorrow we get our 15 Indian Runner ducklings... we have been told that they are relatively easy to raise and after about 5 months they will begin producing as many as 300 eggs/year/duck (assuming we don't end up with 15 drakes)... the duckies are just another one of our preps getting ready for the future that Obama has in store for us. Today we put medal siding on our duck house. It still needs to be washed down because the tin was muddy but this is where the little quackers will get out of "fowl" weather. Their waterer and feeder (red) are sitting next to the "baby duck ramp:"Here's a video of these unusual ducks... we don't have a Border Collie so I'll be responsible for herding the little quackers... you'll see why they are called "runners:"

Although we haven't got everything in the ground yet (green beans, cucumbers, more onions, more tomatoes, medicinal/culinary herbs, etc.), our garden is doing well (2 blueberry bushes are not shown... they will produce this year).
We have 6 yellow squash plants:
About 8 tomato plants:
Lots of Vidalia onions (yum!) and about 5 strawberry plants in the 4 X 4 raised bed next to the onions:
This is Alexis' 12th century antique rose that needs to be transplanted:
This is the view of our "front yard" and driveway looking out our kitchen window (with our new gate closed):
All in all, we love living in the woods on the Cumberland Plateau... we even welcomed a new barbecue restaurant to Monteagle (7 miles east of us on I-24) last week... our prayers have been answered... it ain't Texas/Oklahoma BBQ but it's not bad.