Sunny Sunday

Flora

It was a beautiful morning and everyone wanted to get outside.  We've had two weeks of rainy, overcast weather, but yesterday and today were warm and sunny.  The chickens were out first thing. In another 2 weeks we may have eggs.

Henrietta

Pearl

The girls love their greens.

Twenty, or so, potatoes,

I had some time to inspect the garden a bit and pull everything up and out before the frost comes.  You may have noticed that I haven't said much about the vegetable gardens this summer - If you can't say something nice, it's better to say nothing at all.

only one little red tomato,

quite a few purple beans,

three dozen stunted carrots and

lots of pretty nasturtiums.

The dogs and I walked around the yard picking up sticks to chip. I noticed we had two nice apples ready to pick.

Honeycrisp apple

 We went near and far in search of twigs, sticks and branches to chip. Once we got a nice pile I started my favorite piece of lawn equipment, Chipper, and together we turned the wood into a nice little cover for one of the aisles between my raised beds. One aisle down, one to go.  As a reward I went down to Payment Lake with the dogs and enjoyed a half hour in the sun.

Maddie Jo

Gracie

Asher's butt

The girls and I relaxed on the shoreline and quietly took in the colors, the lake and the sun.  Then, SPLISH, SPLASH, SPLISH, SPLASH, Asher went in the water to track the critters in hiding.

 Back at the house, Pete was exchanging the screens for storm windows.  The girls positioned themselves to watch.

Smiling Maddie Jo.

Gracie, ready to help.

Wagging tail.

Asher kept his eyes on the water.










It was a wonderful morning and a great afternoon, but as 3:00 approached we started to move inside. Brats needed to be grilled, sauerkraut heated up, chips put into a bowl and doggie bandanas had to be tied on - It's PACKER TIME - everyone inside!