Beets

Picked the first of this year’s fruits.  Delicious!  Now every day I will pick, dehydrate for storage, sell to neighbors, or eat fresh.

There is such serenity to a garden with night coming on.  I sit in the lawn chair by the fire pit and sing one last song.  The chickens squabble for the best spot on their perches. The once-vivid sunset slowly fades. The last of the songbirds flit by to find a safe perch for the…

I don’t usually post on Sunday, but feel I must say that we are safe from the terrible wind and rain storm we had today.  The wind felt more like a tornado than a thunderstorm.  We could see the cloud line coming — dark and roiling.  Worst I have ever seen.  The wind was horizontal…

I love this time of evening:  the birds are flitting off to their night perches, the sun is down, the sunset has faded, the air is cool and refreshing, the fireflies are flashing about, — all is peaceful and quiet.  I take a minute to sit in the lawn chair by the burn pit, breathe…

Saw our first green, round tomato.  It is only the size of a golf ball, but its the first I have seen.  There have been many, many blossoms, so the season looks good.  Saw two more random plants come up.  Don’t know what they are, but the neighbor hopes they are the small sweet minis…

Spent most of the morning hands-and-knees weeding the winter beans.  They are now 6 inches tall.  Then the massive thunderstorm hit.  No damage.  And I enjoyed relaxing a bit while watching its fury from the dry-ness of my porch.