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Having gotten some rain in the last couple weeks, the New Herb garden is bursting with color finally. Some of the colors from the top p...

On Monday my backup helper and I went out to the Big garden and started where we’d left off 2 weeks ago, in the bean and onion area. We ...

On Monday it rained off and on all day. I spent the day doing laundry and the morning doing bills and budget early for a change. In the ...

I never got the zucchini bread made on Friday afternoon, so I cleaned up the kitchen first thing on Saturday morning and laid out everyt...

On Friday morning when my backup helper arrived we went out and got the 14 bales of mulch hay we just put in the barn on Monday. I work...

Both the MacIntosh apple and the crabapple are dropping fruit. I found these 2 apples in the Big garden. I last planted morning glories...

Cosmos On Thursday, after another cool night for sleeping, I didn’t have anyone coming to help. So I sozzled around and finally went out...

On Wednesday my intern was coming and she asked to bring a friend with her. So at 9AM we went out to the Big garden to start cleaning it...

source We are in a “significant drought”, the tan area. The orange is “critical drought”. Much of what I’ve harvested this year has been...

On Monday morning I got an early start and was already when my backup helper arrived. The truck had started and we headed out to move mu...

On Sunday morning it was cold inside, mid 50’sF, so I wasn’t in a hurry to get done so much. I got laundry started, my post written and ...

It was cold inside on Saturday morning, the mid 50’s F. I was harvesting onions because there was rain forecast for Wednesday and the on...

Welcome to another Chaos Friday post. I was up early because we had another cool night for sleeping so had gone to bed at a reasonable t...

On Thursday morning before my intern arrived to do elderberries at 9AM, I went out and reweeded the walkways so my son could start the r...

The humidity dropped and the night cooled down and I slept 9 hours. When I got up on Wednesday morning it was very pleasant and I felt o...

On Tuesday morning I’d planned to finish the beets. But when I got up I was unpleasantly shown that the AC had lost the battle in the ni...

On Monday morning when I went up to do chores, this is what greeted me outside the front door at 6AM. I’d not gotten to sleep until 1:15...

On Sunday, after only 5½ hours sleep due to it being so hot, I went out at 7AM. In the Big garden, the chore for the day was harvesting ...

I wasn’t sure just how many of the beans had produced, so I went out early Saturday morning to get them picked before it got hot. It wou...

Saturday was to be a very hot day, so I was out early to pick beans. The sun was just rising over the trees into the Big garden. Lima ...

On Friday morning I went out before breakfast and got started. I got all but 13 of the label stakes in the New Herb garden put in. Then ...

It had been 12 days since I’d read any posts on my feed. I sat and read some of them late into the night Wednesday night while I waited ...

On the last relatively nice evening on Wednesday, I went outside with the camera. This is from the parking area at the barn. I went up ...

The New Herb garden has changed a lot since June 2022. On Wednesday I had asked my general helper to come early, at 7:30, as it was hum...

On Tuesday, I got the kitchen cleaned up, finished the bills and budget, and then started on my mom’s present. The rings I needed to fin...

On Monday I spent the day paying bills and doing the budget and doing laundry. A doctor’s visit confirmed long covid. He said it could b...

On Sunday morning I went out at 6AM while it was cool and picked my biggest bowl of green beans. I’d only picked 8’ of a 36’ row and did...

I got up and got started at 4:45AM on Saturday. I had a lot to do before I left at 9AM to go to my mom’s: get at least 1 post up on the ...

My friend picked me up at 11. We quickly decided we’d only do the Bridge of Flowers because I was so tired. This is the east end where w...

On Friday morning I got an early start cleaning up the mess from the blueberries: vacuuming and mopping floors and cleaning up the kitch...