Summer is fading

Summer is over and there’s finally time to get back to posting on this blog. It seems like, even though the days are longer, there just isn’t enough time to work all day and come in at a decent hour to post a few things. Hopefully I’ll get better at this!

The nights are starting to cool off up north are here, but there’s still warm sun during the day. Our first frost came by in late September and it won’t be long before its time to get ready for winter.

This year some of the usually good crops were only so so and so,e of the so sos were pretty good. Asparagus and strqberri s were real productive this Spring, but the rhubarb was so so. Lettuce and shard was great but carrots and radish weren’t even ok. Pumpkins were great but summer squash was hardly worth the effort. Tomatoes were late but the potatoes did fine. It really is hard to plan for any one harvest so it’s better to just roll with what you’ve got.

Egg hens were ok but the bantams were better.

And then there’s Lucky. One day in mid Summer a lady showed up at the local restaurant with a little kitten she found in the road. Upon checking, he was a he so I decided I’d take him – the price was right and every respectable homestead farm needs at least one cat. image
So in the end little five week old (or so) Lucky came to live here with all the others. He can be persistent in demanding attention, but he’s learned his place with the chickens and really likes the moles, voles, and mice to keep in line. Now if he’d just take after the deer!

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