Work your fingers to the bone; whaddya get? Bony fingers!
Ha. It was a day of hard labor at Boulderneigh. First, we got "Brian's" strawberry patch weeded – and freed a garter snake that had gotten trapped in the bird netting that protects it. Next, we started the burn pile and decided to prune some trees while we had a fire going. Then we focused on getting our garden up to speed. We had volunteer potatoes in scattered spots, so I dug them all up, harvested the new potatoes, and replanted all the potato plants in one long row together. Rick started setting the starts he'd purchased – 14 tomato plants, eight pepper plants, eight cucumbers, and one watermelon – and I helped him finish. Rick also worked in the blueberry patch (that's
his baby). I still need to purchase and plant seeds for bush beans, zucchini, carrots and beets; will hopefully get those tomorrow.
After evening chores, we vaccinated all four horses, tagged all three lambs, and finally banded Bing.
I planned to make bread and ride Larry today, but ran out of time – and energy!
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| Free to hunt again. |
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| Larry keeping an eye on the burn pile. |
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| Cutting more of this |
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| to add to this. |
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| Plants in the dirt are like money in the bank. |
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| The fiddler on our roof who serenaded us throughout the day. |
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| Taking time to see the flowers (species geraniums with spirea buds). |
That's it for today from . . .
9 comments:
Busy, busy, busy! We had a similar day, but didn't get the burn piles started in time before the rains came. The barn is almost cleaned out from the winter build up of stuff, the pen weed wacked down, put away lots of wood for cutting and splitting next winter ( assuming this one finally gives up the ghost) and just enjoyed being out and about.
What a nice day! :-)
My goodness, you all were busy! It's so nice to get a lot done. That physical tiredness is so preferable to the brain-dead feeling after a day in the office!
It was raining by the time we fell into bed; perfect timing for the garden plants! My transplanted potatoes were looking pretty droopy yesterday but they've perked right back up.
The only thing that would have made it better would have been the time and energy to ride. :-)
So true, Susan.
Don't you get this warm fuzzy feeling when you accomplish so much? There's just something about growing your own food, and working on your own little chunk of land that city life can never give to us. sigh.....
Okay, what bird was on the roof??? Good picture of Larry, and the garden looks great!
Mary Ann, that is one of the resident collared-doves; you can hear what we were serenaded with in the previous post's video.
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