We have bean!

Getting closer

Last corn planting for 2011

Cement work

Last week we poured the slab for our new selling location. Here's Amber, Rodger, Todd & Travis finishing up the final troweling. It turned out beautifully. A little more carpentry to put up a couple walls & it'll be done but we might open before then so don't be surprised if you stop by for some squash or a melon & things are still looking a little rough.

Earning the pity of Sisyphus.

Once more I envy Sisyphus, he just had the one job to worry about.
But at least these wonderful cantaloupe are growing so nicely.
Hoping this fine summer day fills you with joy.

Trying to identify this tree.

We thought this was a black walnut for years. Now it has flowered we are sure that isn't correct.

Update: It's Sumac. Soon to be a very short stump.

Blueberries!

Dad on his cubby.

Summer solstice delights

Popsicles are so wonderful on the 1st day of summer.

Cold Spring plantings

We're scrambling to get mounds pulled before the next block of rain blows in. Harvest in the greenhouse has begun with Zukes, cukes & broccoli. So far just enough for friends & family but in a few more weeks we'll have enough to open, although the broccoli will be done by then. We've got 4 fields of corn planted with the 1st 2 out of the ground already. Funny what we heard from the uncles in Mississippi: their corn is tasseling already!

I'm off to work, wishing you a delightful Memorial Day.

1st harvest 2011 !!

We ate the 1st bok-choi out of the greenhouse stir-fried w/ chicken, broccoli, other veggies & sesame-peanut sauce for dinner. So delicious! Gonna have to start selling soon.

hot & cold spring day

It's sooo hot in the greenhouse. Well, so hot anyways, especially when compared with the chilly breeze outside.

Ice on the water buckets this morning but everything in the greenhouse was fine, whew! 1st zucchini should flower in about a week.

a little greenhouse action

the 1st of our pak-choi type chinese cabbage is just about ready to cut, some of the lettuces are getting close too. Gonna have to scramble to get the stand moved and open before the broccoli starts to head. Here's a pic:

long time no blog

An apology to any regular readers I might still have, we've been mighty busy with the greenhouse and garden so it's been hard to find spare time to write. I'm gonna line up the stuff so I can blog from my android phone & then we should see a more regular flow of posts. In the meantime, here's some cuteness to assuage the hurt.

rain delay

Starting to burn our way into our spring planting dates as the rain continues to sludgify every open soil surface. The brief periods of dry coming up in the forecast won't help much either but I'll sure take every hour of open sky I can get.

Nonetheless, it's a beautiful winter day in early spring.

Winter working

It's a rainy day but the work goes on in our big greenhouse. We've spent the last couple days cleaning it out after last year's tomatoes & a brief stint of chickens. Dad tilled and fertilized a bed for our first lettuce and cole crops while I was hauling out debris. We'll probably start planting later today.

Dad's heading into the doctor's shortly to (maybe) get his chemo if his blood tests from yesterday came out ok.

Mt. Fielder is putting on a lovely show of fog and trees this morning while Sparky and I enjoy our morning tea time.

Hoping your day is peaceful and lively.

Signs of things to come

We're putting together one of our last seed orders. Holy Cow! the prices have skyrocketed. This and other expenses will have to be passed on to our customers which will not be well received.

This shows exactly what is happening throughout our economy. And hints at just how bad things can become in a very short time.

Hooray! for Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.

Keep up the good work Scott, it's time for the reasonable and realistic people to put their foot down and tell the whiners to take a Waaa!mbulence out of town.

It's still winter

I could feel the bony grasp of the ol' hags hand through my moccasins this morning.

Forward thinking

Our Egyptian buddy Sandmonkey has an idea for them that sounds like a good idea for America too! A way to circumvent the gridlock of our Dem-Rep dichotomy.