Farm report
Sorry (to both my faithful readers) for not blogging; I was out of town for the weekend on vacation with m'lady, and since then have been on vacation with m'lady at home, trying to catch up on the farm work. It's been a struggle because it's been so stinking hot and humid (high 80s), and because Rusty's priorities have been "pretty" while mine have been "functional", and women have a habit of making their priorities their husband's priority. Yesterday was mostly about side yard cleaning, as the ground was still wet. I took away the old pallets and made a compost bin from them, put brooder-house bedding in it and the sawdust from the spot that would grow no grass (because it was sawdust), cleaned out the open side of the barn. Rusty pulled weeds from the gravel turnaround and took up big stones from an ex-parking place that is being returned to grass (she got 5 cubic yards of topsoil today). I took a mid-day break and bought plants from Angie at Always in Bloom, and the hardware, and got wood at Paul's in Garrettsville. I lost a mess of time because the pickup decided to die 2 miles from home. By the time I got a ride and got back with my car, it fired right up; go fig. I finished out the day by rototilling the garden.
Today Rusty was mowing and weed-whacking, and working on poultry fencing for the new birds, while I was planting. Beans, curcurbitae and some okra are in. The only reason I'm writing now is that a thunderstorm hit around 3 PM and put us out of business outside. The roof got a good test; I'll check for wet spots in a bit.
First strawberries yesterday. Snow peas are blossoming. Today was the first crow from one of the Silkies. None of the potatoes I planted are up, but there's a volunteer, right in one of the rows.
The lovely thing about this vacation is that I am so out of touch with the Ongoing Collapse of Western Civilization. I'm sure that all kinds of horrible things have been happening; I just haven't had the time to find out about them, and what I have heard of hasn't pushed any buttons. Earthquake in Indonesia? riots in Afghanistan? Ho hum...
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