Philly dogs or Southern dogs

I have been given free reign of the high tunnel and a plot in the fruit orchard. So I spent all day cleaning out the tunnel. I had some wonderful findings while cleaning: two massive cucumbers, potatoes, beets and a carrot. Some of the beets were chewed through so Jackson and Lincoln enjoyed that treat! The tunnel provides a lot of shade and has a little breeze so it was nice to be out of the direct 93 degree weather.

Already existing  in the tunnel that I decided to keep was loads of basil, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, lemon grass, okra and fennel. I have so much space to utilize and want to plan accordingly. I am excited to have a meeting with the farmer at Walker organics about this project I am taking on. Hopefully in the end I will provide the farm with luscious fall and winter vegetables!

Tonight’s dinner was comprised of the pickings from the high tunnel. I made a potato and beet salad as well as a cucumber salad !

We are watching a friend’s dog and I was a bit skiddish around him for the first few days since he resembles a pit-bull and the first thing I thought of was a dirty philly dog. But, tonight I didn’t let him sense my fear. I took him for a nice long walk to the south meadow and Jackson followed along his pasture as we walked. I thought a 7pm walk would have cooled a bit but it’s still a blazing out. At the pruning workshop I attended the other day a girl gave me a ten minute speech on the difference between the three types of dogs they have here since they will have random packs of dogs run onto property and she wanted me to be able to identify them if they came near me.

Katie, I found a metal chicken! Proof will come in the future, I didn’t have my camera!