Typical summer... been too busy to do more than read what others are posting, lol.
The garden is doing very well this year. I just hope the weather is on our side for long enough to harvest everything. We picked our first patty pan squash yesterday and had a delicious mess of broccoli last night; the volunteer potatoes are blooming, got a lot of little green globes on the tomatoes. The only crop I've had to declare a dead loss on is the lettuce; the ground squirrels just wouldn't leave them alone, and now it's too hot to replant. The hazelnuts look like they've got some little green nuts starting the quince and peach seem to be flourishing, and it looks like we will have a bumper crop of plums this year. The apple tree didn't put out many blooms this year though; I think they got hit by the frost that missed the plums.
Chickens are doing well- we heard somebody crow in the coop a couple mornings ago but can't tell by looks yet. It looks like we have a RIR (Henrietta), some sort of mix- she's white with some light red lacing across the back (Spot), 3 White Leghorns (Thing 1, Thing 2, and Thing 3), and 2 dozen Speckled Sussex (The Spotted Horde). Some of the Horde are considerably smaller than everyone else- almost Banty-sized; but I bought them straight-run from Murray McMurray? One of the banty-sized ones may be the crower, because we caught him trying to mount Thing 1... he was too small and Thing put up a terrible fuss about it, until Millie the LGD ran over and broke up the fight.
I came into the pantry a couple of days ago and caught sight of a fat little mouse running toward the corner. We set traps and caught that one the first night. We haven't caught any others, so maybe it was only one. I've been cleaning things up in there- moving everything that was in plastic or cardboard into glass jars and throwing mouse-chewed stuff to the chickens. So far I lost my coconut, a couple of small containers of specialty flours, and a bag of walnuts, darn!
We've started going to two Tai Chi sessions, back-to-back on Mondays and Fridays; we go to one session on Wednesdays, followed by some pool time to relax. I've been feeling some pain on the days when I do 2 sessions simply because it's more than I was used to; but hopefully in another week or so I'll be ok again.
We are still on the Keto diet, and I've lost 40 pounds so far (Yay!) while DH has lost about 15 (he cheats, lol)
So, I'm looking at making a curry with some canned pork I have, and frozen green beans. Not sure about dessert yet... maybe some low-carb ice cream with strawberries?
strawberries!
Tomorrow my crock pot will work for the day. And I will bring home fresh raspberry, blackberry & blueberries from my sampling work, along with whipped cream.
