Category: July 2013
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Watching and Waiting
July 29, 2013 Just like my wife Connie watching over our little ones, I am watching the weather and waiting for the timing to be right 😮 I cannot believe that July is almost gone and I am so very far behind,,,but I haven’t spent a single minute watering anything!…
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“Play”ing Around
July 19, 2013 We had a party over the fourth of July. It was well attended by family. Everyone had a good day “down on the farm”. We all had to walk around the mud…well all of us except the little ones who delighted in it. Connie and I spent…
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Spelt has been Harvested
July 17, 2013 Some people grow spelt to be used for flour. Spelt flour can be used by folks who can’t eat wheat. I grow spelt to feed my draft horses. It, along with salt and mineral, is a perfect wholesome food that the horses love to eat. It has all…
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Saving the Ladies
July 15, 2013 Last Friday I went to get another bee tree. It seems odd that I have gotten two in one year. In fact, this tree actually had two seperate hives in it. One was in the section you see with the climber in, the other one is right…
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Let Me Tell You About My Day
July 14, 2013 After a few days off and no rain, I walked the hay fields and found them to still be too wet to make dry hay. The speltz field however, felt pretty good. I had hooked to the combine yesterday and was all greased up and ready to go.…
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Raspberry Delight
July 11, 2013 These are our first raspberrys in this bed. We have tried other locations, but this one is proving to be the best. The rain has made weeding the bed an almost a forgotten task, but the berries don’t care. They are giving us fruit daily. The grandkids ate…
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Raised Beds and Potatoes
July 5, 2013 Our raised beds are the only part of our gardening efforts that are positive this year. I plant a few potatoes for early summer eating, to hold us over until the main crop is ready later in the season. I like the early red ones in potato…
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Backyard Chicken … Yum!
July 4, 2013 These chickens are doing great. We started out with 25 chicks and still have 22. The three we lost along the way is just part of the process sometimes. One got its head stuck in the wire somehow and died. The other two we lost were the…
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Time and the Tides
July 3, 2013 Time and the tides wait for no man – Geoffrey Chaucer This statement is so very true…. Our son and his faimly came home for a visit from Montana. It has been too many years since we have seen them. The grandkids have grown like kids do,…
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