Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[baymule]

Coffee is ready! It’s a rainy, drizzly morning and 54F degrees. Sheep are huddled up in their shelters. Dessa, the ewe with the dead lamb, is doing better. She kept up with the flock yesterday. Time to start chores, but I’m all snug and warm in my sloppy sweats and cuddled under an afgan. No ambition. Dirty Birdies on the porch need their tubs cleaned up this morning. 5 minutes later you’d never know I just cleaned them. Already looking forward to them being in the freezer. Even in a chicken tractor moved daily or twice daily, the Cornish Cross are some nasty poop masters. That’s why I call them Dirty Birdies.

 

[baymule]

My 2 new girls!

 

[The Porch]

I'll get a pic of the corn when I go down to water,
I started with this, hand plowed and on my knees pulling up grass & weeds,


and 3 days later had this,




but I'll get a new pic, after while

 

[FarmerJamie]

Local farmer's market starts up again tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to reconnecting with with my suppliers!

Had a great convo with one of CSA farmers I have known a long time (coached my son's youth baseball team). He is striving towards organic certification. We had a conversation last summer about some of my solutions for stuff like powdery mildew and bugs. He was so excited to tell me my advice helped him research some more solutions and was looking forward to apply them.

 

[CrealCritter]

It's a overcast day slight breeze and currently 64 degrees. Forecast to be a partly sunny and a high of 74. I had to dump out kiddie pools last night and again this morning. But here is why growing in kiddie pools is so successful.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Hinotori]

Congrats on your wedding. Don't worry too much about it.

My family said the best wedding they ever went to was when I married my husband. He wore his uniform and I found a cream lace dress on sale. Had it at my Grandma's (Mom's mom) out in the country. My Grandpa (Dad's dad) performed the ceremony as a local judge. We just set up chairs and tables and everyone brought some food. No decorations. Mom and Great Aunt made a small fancy cake (they made cakes for all of the family weddings). I picked up some mixed flowers from the grocery store and Mom turned them into a nice bouquet. Wedding took 10 minutes. One minute of that was Grandpa asking if anyone had objections and waiting saying "this is what we call a pregnant pause". Grandpa was wearing overalls. Total cost was about $150

 

[FarmerJamie]

Smile on my face this morning. This weekend is our little town's summer festival. Lots of small vendors, downtown blocked off, tractor parade tomorrow, General parade Sunday.

Cotton candy and Italian sausage sammies.

 

[farmerjan]

@CrealCritter ... Just a suggestion... putting the hay flat to flat is great...tight against each.... protects the hay from more "aging" ... BUT don't let the rounded parts touch ...keep at least 6 inches or so apart... so the water does not run down against each bale... it will cause it to soak in more, rather than run all the way down the rounded part to the ground. The net wrap does more to protect from weathering than just strings(which we mostly use) so that is good for you.... I would keep the little bale out and put the same sized ones tight against each other for more protection from weathering...
We put ours in long rows along field edges/woods... but leave at least 1-2 ft between the rows so they can shed all rain directly to the ground off the rounded sides... and we can get inbetween them if we need to for any reason. The only time the rounded parts touch is if we are stacking to cover with a tarp... 3-2-1 to form a triangle- shape...

So nice to have the hay as an insurance against bad weather/drought/any other need. And anything that gets "crummy" is great mulch, as you well know and use yours. Glad you have that...

 

[farmerjan]

We did the same thing on Tuesday. Took 1 lb ground beef, to neighbor's, she did mushrooms and onions, swiss cheese, cooked on the grill.... lettuce and tomato, ketchup... pot salad, deviled eggs from my chickens' eggs...
M...MM... GOOD.... Home grown is it......

 

[baymule]

Had a nice day. Went to church with DD and the girls. Then we went to Red Lobster for Snow Crab. It was delicious and we enjoyed each other and the food. Then home to my house, naps, pack the van and they just left.