Oy y vey

I wonder if that is how you are supposed to spell it?  I don't know and frankly, I'm to lazy to go look it up right now. So there it is.

The garden. Its doing well.  We are picking lots of cherry tomatoes right now. The bigger tomatoes are coming slowly but surely. 

The peppers are doing well, we just have one problem.  Toddlers.  Toddlers who imitate. Toddlers who imitate their parents when they harvest the garden.  you get the idea. Its a problem.  I do my best to find the picked produce and try and salvage it.  Sadly, our poblano peppers will never get large. And that will have to be ok. Their lives ended to early.

I am a cantaloupe stalker.  I check them every day to see if their are done. Cuz I know how to do that. (after watching a youtube video) :)

The watermelon is not done. Yet it is huge. but according to youtube, it is not done. I sure hope it doesn't rot on the vine.

The corn is done. has been for a while.  The cows are now enjoying the stalks and pushing on the fence and breaking the electric wire in order to get to it. Yeah, rethinking the corn location. And the voltage on the fence.

The chickens are giving us about 16 eggs a day. In my book that means that 6 chickens are shirking their duties every day.  I'd like to find those chickens and give them a talking to. But none of the other chickens will rat them out.

The chickens have been free ranging every afternoon. I started this when we had a problem with egg eating.  We had been getting 18-19 eggs per day and then it went down to like 8-10.  And there was evidence of broken eggs. So I started letting them out and it seems to have stopped. Either that or they have become clever and figured out how to hide the evidence. Sadly that is a real possibility. But I don't have the time to track it down right now.   Maybe this winter if it becomes a problem again.

Both the chickens and the cows have been enjoying some peach trees that hang over the pasture.  They love to go and have a snack under that tree.  The peaches are not buggy and are just about ripe. So I may harvest some to add to the peaches currently rotting on my cupboard.

The cows are getting nice and big.

The lettuce seeds are sprouting again and we will probably have some more lettuce very soon.  The herbs are growing like crazy and also the volunteer tomato plants are giving us roma, cherry, and regular tomatoes. What a treat!