Having gotten some rain in the last couple weeks, the New Herb garden is bursting with color finally. Some of the colors from the top photo. More from the top photo. Rows 2 and 3 Looking from Row 7 south

On Monday my backup helper and I went out to the Big garden and started where we’d left off 2 weeks ago, in the bean and onion area. We got it cleaned out and then mulched. I was 1 bale short of finishing

On Monday it rained off and on all day. I spent the day doing laundry and the morning doing bills and budget early for a change. In the evening my son cooked supper (meatloaf and diced beets) and cleaned

I never got the zucchini bread made on Friday afternoon, so I cleaned up the kitchen first thing on Saturday morning and laid out everything I could to make the bread. I’d be making 3 loaves, hopefully

On Friday morning when my backup helper arrived we went out and got the 14 bales of mulch hay we just put in the barn on Monday. I worked on finishing this pea row. We had that spread by 10:30 and I was

Both the MacIntosh apple and the crabapple are dropping fruit. I found these 2 apples in the Big garden. I last planted morning glories in the East Shed garden 20 – 25 years ago. I found this one growing

Cosmos On Thursday, after another cool night for sleeping, I didn’t have anyone coming to help. So I sozzled around and finally went out to the Big garden about 9:30. I weeded the artichokes. There are

On Wednesday my intern was coming and she asked to bring a friend with her. So at 9AM we went out to the Big garden to start cleaning it up as it wasn’t raining and wouldn’t until mid afternoon. I started

source We are in a “significant drought”, the tan area. The orange is “critical drought”. Much of what I’ve harvested this year has been smaller than usual. I water about once a week, for 2 hours so it

On Monday morning I got an early start and was already when my backup helper arrived. The truck had started and we headed out to move mulch hay. We got this big pile moved into the garden. We also got

On Sunday morning it was cold inside, mid 50’sF, so I wasn’t in a hurry to get done so much. I got laundry started, my post written and breakfast eaten and headed outside. Once the barn chores were done,

It was cold inside on Saturday morning, the mid 50’s F. I was harvesting onions because there was rain forecast for Wednesday and the onions needed several days to dry down so I could braid them. I pulled

Welcome to another Chaos Friday post. I was up early because we had another cool night for sleeping so had gone to bed at a reasonable time. The morning chores were done and I tried to get the milk order

On Thursday morning before my intern arrived to do elderberries at 9AM, I went out and reweeded the walkways so my son could start the re-mulching. I also deadheaded and weeded the beds, but they didn’t

The humidity dropped and the night cooled down and I slept 9 hours. When I got up on Wednesday morning it was very pleasant and I felt okay, so I set about getting the last of the big beets cooking. My

On Tuesday morning I’d planned to finish the beets. But when I got up I was unpleasantly shown that the AC had lost the battle in the night. It was still valiantly chugging along, but not making headway

On Monday morning when I went up to do chores, this is what greeted me outside the front door at 6AM. I’d not gotten to sleep until 1:15AM. And this is what it looked like on the way to the car. Hazy,

On Sunday, after only 5½ hours sleep due to it being so hot, I went out at 7AM. In the Big garden, the chore for the day was harvesting all the beets. The row was 11’ long but had 3’ of marigolds in the

I wasn’t sure just how many of the beans had produced, so I went out early Saturday morning to get them picked before it got hot. It would take a while to process them and I wanted to be done by noon.

Saturday was to be a very hot day, so I was out early to pick beans. The sun was just rising over the trees into the Big garden. Lima beans in the sunrise Front pasture with Little tree shadows Wildflower