Poor Pumpkins!

 Sometime in the two weeks that I've been gone, there must have been a decent rainfall.

 My absentee farming isn't working out real well.  I was late planting pumpkins and then it didn't rain.

There seems to be enough water for weeds but my intended crops seem to be suffering.

 I spent hours trying to find my rows between the weeds.  I have some complete rows where nothing seems to have germinated.  Especially the large jack-o-lantern pumpkins.

 I did a quick look with the hoe trying to find some germinated pumpkins.

 There are a few out there.

 But there weren't many and they were hard to find in the weeds.

 There were a few volunteers from last year that weren't in any rows.

 And, if I got on my hands and knees, I could find some newly sprouted ones among the weeds.  I didn't have enough time to do that with the whole field.

 I got the main rows tilled, a few individual plants hoed, and the deer exclusion tape up.  Then it was time to leave.

 I have a peach tree with a couple of peaches.

 This is a new clover field.

 Where it is up, it is mostly clover.

 One corner of it is overrun with pigweed.  I even used a suppressant when planting (Prowl).

 My annual mix field is a mix - weeds and also the intended plants - sunflower, sorghum, peas, lab lab, beans.

 Chicory and clover field.

 I think that these blue flowers are the chicory.  They look like bachelor buttons.

 Main field needs disked up again for August 1 planting of brassica.

 It is fawn time and they are showing up on camera.

 I haven't seen any twins yet this year.

 I missed these guys in May.

 Fox

Coyote

 And some very nice bucks.  This guy is looking beastly.

 Six on one side?

 Nice and wide

 Weird

Need more farm time.  Not sure when that might happen.