Just My Thoughts Today.....

We are making slow progress on the garden. We had planted all our tomatoes and peppers the last week of May. We put them in Hot caps to protect them from the wind. We left for Wyoming and came back to find they had FROZEN!!!! So I planted 12 jalapeno plants for Wilfred and 2 more tomatoes this week. Maybe just maybe we will have a long enough season to get some fruit. Wilfred is out now planting the corn, beans, and other goodies. This is the latest we have ever planted our garden before....but with such weird weather I guess we had no choice. It is 95 outside right now. It was supposed to get to 105 in the big city today, makes me glad to live on the other side of the mountain. The news said we haven't had it this hot this early in June since 2004. We also have a HOT, DRY wind gusting out there.

Wilfred put in a window a/c for me on Thursday night. I am enjoying it! It is much quieter than our swamp cooler was. (Swap cooler had to go when we built Kaleb a room.) It manages to keep the living room about 10 degrees cooler than outside.....I'll take whatever I get. I have always gotten heat stroke easily and it is much worse when I am pregnant. Yesterday I planted moss roses out in my porch planters. I had the kids out helping me....when I got too hot I began throwing up. The kids were sure worried! Lindsy was quite fascinated with the color and Clayton was certain I was going to die. We have eaten our dinner out on the porch every night. It has been much cooler outside than inside. The kids have enjoyed the picnic style eating and the neighbors have taken to staring as they drive by. We just wave real big and smile.

Wilfred butchered the Cornish chickens this morning. We had 5 birds that all weighed in at 6.5 pounds dressed. Not bad! Lindsy started begging her dad to get more baby chicks. So he caved and put in another order for more chicks. We have 15 Cornish, 5 Black Star laying hens, & 5 Rhode Island Red laying hens coming again in July. I put an ad on craigslist a few days ago to get rid of my surplus of eggs. I said I would charge a dollar extra per carton if I had to meet someone in the big city. I sold out in no time. I am taking a load of eggs with me to the grocery store tomorrow, I have a few ladies who are going to meet me there. They were more than happy to pay the extra for fresh eggs. This has given us some hope for selling our eggs more. If I can build a regular client base that would be awesome. That is why Wilfred put in for more laying hens as well. I guess we will see what happens. Maybe Clayton will get his wish for a farm after all. It'll be an egg farm!

This morning we also had our first snake on the property. Wilfred found it under the feed bin down at the chicken coop. Just a bull snake....but still too much snake for my liking!