It Must be Summer.... BUSY!!!!!

 The day started early with a call from the post office.

The chicks have arrived!!!

We ordered 26 little cornish cross meat birds.

Just for us. Not to sell.

So after breakfast Kyle and I headed up to the farm

to get them all set up.

They are all nice and cozy in the old water trough.

We locked them up in Kyle's shed for now.

He is building a coop for them, but it's not done.

They have to stay in for 2 weeks anyway.

Then we headed down to the garden to take advantage

of the LOVELY overcast, cool weather!

We have some peppers...

Picked lots of tomatoes and some yellow squash.

More yellow squash and some cucumbers.

The tomatoes are going NUTS!

And we are getting some growth on the various

squash and cucumbers. It's fun to see them

starting to climb the trellis.

We weeded 2 50-foot rows of okra.

Rod showed up after a bit and was a HUGE help!

These two rows haven't ever been weeded so they

needed some serious work.

(My body is VERY sore tonight.... lol)

Then I took Rod up to see Kyle's progress.

He stained the bathroom counter.

And stained and waxed the kitchen counters.

And the island.

And the cutting board he made out off a scrap of butcher block

from putting in the sink.

He stained the stairs, but he'll varnish them instead of wax.

It's looking GOOD!

His garden by the front door is looking so pretty!

LOVE the sunflower!

There's a smaller one in the other bed too.

Oh yeah!

And yesterday I canned my very first pickled beets!

I used my new steam canner.

They all sealed!!!

Here's hoping they taste good!

I was heading outside to get the cherry tomatoes out

of the freeze dryer now that I'm done with class,

but we just got a pop-up thunder storm.

So I'll add 10 hours and do it in the morning.

I'm bushed.