Lots of Beautiful Flowers!

 It was another busy day.

Rod and I went down to the little

hardware store to get some new

drill bits (he broke his fixing the

paneling on the outside of the garage...)

Then we drove by the Catholic church

to pay for the peaches I ordered.

(It's the youth fund raiser every year and

EVERYONE in town said they are

the BEST peaches... we'll see!)

But they weren't there,

so I went home and got an envelope

and then on the way to the farm

I dropped it in their mailbox.

Hope they got it!

Anyhow.

Kyle and I headed to the farm.

(Separate cars - I had to teach...)

Once we got there, I checked on the chicks,

they are doing great.

Already getting feathers.

They were hatched on Monday.

Then down to the garden to harvest cherry

tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers,

and some okra!

This is going to be a daily activity now for

the rest of the summer.

While there we used some little plastic clips

and secured more of the plants to the

cattle panel trellis. It's SO easy!

We will never go back to trying to tie them.

Then I wandered around the garden and

took pictures of all the pretty flowers.

The grasshoppers are LOVING the sunflowers.

They are munching on their leaves and doing lots of damage.

But the corn right next to it looks GREAT!

We are happy to sacrifice the sunflowers.

(This one doesn't have a sunflower near it...)

Next year we will plant a row of sunflowers next to every row

of corn and see if that works.

(I also have some grasshopper bait coming from

Amazon next week, hopefully that will help!)

They were bad last year, we were hoping it was a

fluke, like a Moses plague or something.

Nope.

After I left, Kyle went back up to his place

and finished painting the trim white on the new

egg wagon. I think he's going to paint the interior

all white as well. Helps to brighten it up on cloudy days,

but also easier to keep clean if it's painted.

Anyhow.

A productive day.

Then I came home and sorted the cherry tomatoes into

yellow, red, and split. The splits are going into the

freeze dryer. (I cut them on the split so nobody knows...)

The rest are going to the market with Rod tomorrow.

And now....... I'm going to go to bed early.

Have to teach the whole day tomorrow

and I'm TIRED!

(I actually was teaching with my eyes closed

tonight and nearly nodded off! 

I was just talking and was "dreaming" about

cleaning the roots on the onions... oops!)

Oh yeah, we also harvested all the beets.

They were only medium sized, but

time to get them out of the ground.

Rod will take them and if they sell, great.

If not, I'll either pickle them or slice and

run them through the freeze dryer and then

powder them. Beet powder is all the rage.

(And EXPENSIVE!)

Ok.

I'm done.

Have a lovely evening and a good weekend.

I'll have nothing to report, since I'm teaching.

(And doing a ministering visit with my companion

at 7 Saturday evening...)

So I'll "see" you Monday!