All Is Well

Wow.

How did the day get away from me???

I had a nice chat with Soni

and then I made some french toast out of the

last of the loaf of raisin bread.

It was more like french biscotte... lol.

Anyhow.

Then Kyle and I sat down and ordered

some bareroot trees to plant at the farm.

We got some blue spruce and some colorado

spruce and some blue hydrangea.

30 years from now they will be beautiful.

Hahaha.

(Like the pines in front of 49)

And then he set up a sprinkler for the

backyard that should water everything

(except the carrots - the peas are too tall...)

And then we brought in the file cabinet that

has been hiding in the garage so I can

FINALLY feel organized around my office.

And then FedEx delivered a bunch of big

ol' boxes from a Sams Club order I made.

We either ate or donated most of our

food storage and I've been feeling

really unsettled without it.

So the other day I took care of some of that.

I'm slowly building it back up with my

freeze dryer, but there was stuff like

Spam, yeast, flour, raisins, rice and

that sort of thing that I needed to stock up on.

Look at all those jars of pickles!!! I'm so proud of those!

So my little office is looking more like

a food storage room.

But I'm MUCH happier!

After the market on Saturday I'm going to

take all the freeze dried stuff out of those

little white display trays and repackage

them in mylar bags 

(I have more coming today, I ran out)

and then we can stack the white trays.

The mylar bags will go in the big

blue totes. (I need to get a couple more...)

That will help with some of the clutter.

I'll just write the net weight of each little

black bag on the front of the mylar

so if someone wants some I'll just

quickly bag it up for them.

But those cute little black bags

aren't meant for long term storage.

They aren't air tight after awhile.

It will be nice to be done with market

for the year.

And I guess it's a good thing we are done.

The neighbor's cows got out AGAIN.

(4th time!!!!!)

(They are STILL out - just got a call from

a neighbor out there...)

Anyhow.

They "visited" our garden again and

wiped us out.

I was going to do more pickles, but they not

only ate the cucumbers (both lemon and pickling)

but they also ate the plants.

And stomped on my spaghetti squash.

And ate the last of the zucchini.

Kyle didn't mention the okra.

We were leaving it on the plants to dry for seed.

Anyhow.

He was disgusted.

We called and left and message and also

sent a text, but no response. He's not 

calling Gale back either, and they've been

neighbors and friends for years.

So I'm concerned maybe there's a reason?

Hopefully he's ok.

But either way.

The garden is done.

Of course next year it will all be behind

the fence on our side of the property.

But for this year....

Grrrrrrrr.

(It's your job to upkeep your fences and

keep your livestock IN, not my job to 

fence my property to keep your livestock OUT.)

Oh the joys of country living.

Having the dogs out there will also help

with the cows and the deer (and the coyotes...)

Anyhow.

Still lots of things on our "to do" list.

So I'd best get on it!