Quick Visit for Chores

Our grandaughter Lucy is coming to visit.  She just turned 3 months old.  This weekend we will be in Mason and next weekend we will be in Chicago.  There is a baby shower for Jeni - our grandson is due in late August.  So I won't be back to the farm for awhile.

Here's Lucy studying up on her farm animals.

I arrived Wednesday night right at sundown.  A pretty heavy storm line came thru at about 6:00.

Another 0.8" of rain - I was hoping for semi-dry ground to work in the garden and do some mowing.

When I got up Thu. morning, we were fogged in (again).

I took a camera tour because it was too wet to do much else.  The sun was supposed to burn it off quickly.

To kill some time, I picked more wild rasberries.  The red ones are delicious.  The black ones are sour.  I eventually filled this container.

I decided to brave the mud and get to work in the patch.  The weeds are getting out of hand.

This is my vegetable row.  I must have put some gourds in there and they are taking over.

I think these are gourds.

The storm blew everything around and made it muddy.

Some of the early pumpkins are really looking good.

I've lost some beans and zucchini in those gourd vines.

But there was still some to harvest.  This is only about 5 days worth.  I don't think that I can stay away for two weeks.

The harvest at home all scrubbed up. The little tomatos are from Joan's plant on the deck.

The one sunflower field already has a couple of blooms.  If we don't come back for two weeks, we may miss the action here.

Here's a spot where the deer got in the sunflowers and ate everything but the stalks.

There are still turkeys around.  While driving around, I kicked up a covey of something bigger than quail (about a dozen of them).  I thought that they were too small to be turkey poults.  I thought they might be grouse but I've never heard of them coveying.

Then I saw this picture - I'm sure it was these poults.  I never saw the hen.

These guys would love to find those poults or a fawn.

This buck has a very nice sized rack for July.

I think that's him on the left coming into this field full of deer. In the picture below you can see him bedded down in the field.

Some other bucks.

Shows how big that first one really is.

I'll have to find another day or two to slip back out here - lots of chores to do.