Did I mention it rained all week? Needless to say, Bill couldn’t bring up his tractor-mounted rototiller on Mother’s Day as the ground was too wet. I suppose we could have done the garden as it’s on a gravel slope and is never too wet to till. But we wanted to do much more. So we postponed that idea. (Bill said maybe he could bring it up next weekend and, fortunately, it looks like our rain will end
soon.)

But Mother’s Day was wonderful anyway. It was sunny and 71 degrees. Imagine that! We met Bill, Kelly, and the grandkids at Byrns Greenhouse in Zim, where we proceeded to about buy out the place. (Well, it seemed like it!) Will and I found three Zone 3 pears (one Zone 2 even!) and two new Zone 3 apricots so we ended up with one pear and two apricots plus a bunch of flowers, perennials, etc. So much fun. Afterwards we went to the Dairy Queen for lunch and home to meet David. Such a nice day.

Byrns-Greenhouse

Ava-Fairy-house

Today it’s raining again. Will’s working on the dozer after finding out that he needs yet another part that was broken. So we have to take a two hour trip to Proctor later on to hopefully get a replacement part.

We got the buck goats and yearling doelings that weren’t bred back down to the goat pasture yesterday when we had extra goat herders. Not much of a job as the goats followed David with a bucket of grain right down the hill. Now Will can clean out the outdoor pens and we can also clean the inside stalls. Hopefully, come winter, we will be using the new barn for winter goat housing. Won’t that be sweet? — Jackie

3 COMMENTS

  1. Rain at 5000 ft elevation off and on for the last week and a half. Glad I dont live on the mountains I look at from my front door they are still getting snow. Poor plow drivers having a hard time keeping some of the roads open. Thanks for sharing your pictures of you family. I miss the midwest and all the local greenhouses to visit. Sorry your dozer is still sick both our tillers were sick both were healed today. Thanks for sharing what you are doing with your plants it really helps me know where I should be also.

  2. Happy Mother’s Day Jackie! Those cute grandchildren are growing fast! Rain also for our Michigan area all of this week. Makes getting outdoor chores done harder.

  3. Your young’uns have really grown! And cute! We have finally had a bit of rain, been under a burn ban and water conservation for quite a while. Imagine, green, growing, grass! Now if the wind would die down a bit.

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